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You don't need React, just like you didn't need jQuery, just like you didn't need AngularJS. None of these are standards in anyway but only jQuery was problematic? Just no...



The dominance of React or Angular is largely a function of Facebook and Google having more powerful marketing machines and resources than John Resig.


JQuery solved a problem that was very real when we adopted it. But that problem doesn’t exist anymore, since browsers extended and refined their API.

However, isomorphic HTML generation/templating and state management are still unsolved from a browser native perspective.




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