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average HN commenter: React is artificial complexity, you should be able to make any website using jQuery and plain HTML, because that's what I did when I last did front-end development in 2007.

also average HN commenter: If you use Python for your backend you're a moron, you need to use Rust so the API calls for your 0.5 requests/sec web app finish in 100ms instead of 125ms (note: 99ms is waiting for the database).

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No one is saying that. People are starting to realize is that JavaScript frameworks are an unnecessary complexity to web application development. People have been seriously turned off by things like angular and react, and with good reason. With the advent of things like hotwire and htmx those JS frameworks are no longer strictly necessary, and many people welcome the news that their importance is fading away.

I’m one of them.

I've been maintaining React SPAs for 6 years now so I absolutely know what I'm taking about when I say that it doesn't scale. I experienced all the pains of the js ecosystem.

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