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I don’t understand how you can claim that react is pure overhead. Sure it does have overhead, but it’s also a really useful abstraction. How composable abstraction for UI components that enables local reasoning not functionality.

jQuery is just pure overhead with no real functionality compared to vanilla js.

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React is vastly overused. You don't need every single element in your page to be a separate component when 95% of your site is pure text and you have an occasional form or a button here and there.

If you're making an actual application (think Discord/Spotify) then yes, it becomes a necessary abstraction. Your personal website or news website (or many others) using React is a waste of my bandwidth and CPU cycles.

Don’t forget about server side rendering. If you only need to serve static, you don’t really need any Jack, anyway.

Agreed it doesn’t make sense for a lot of things that could just be static sites. But you also wouldn’t need jQuery on such sites so I’m not sure why that matters.

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