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Still doing jQuery with server side rendering, not bothering with React. Yep dinosaur here.

It's so nice to build something that works without JS in the first place and then just add some JS and CSS3 animations.

>It's so nice to build something that works without JS in the first place and then just add some JS and CSS3 animations.

Yeah, but JS buys you a lot. There are certain things that you can accomplish with JS that you absolutely cannot accomplish without it.

OTOH, anything that you can accomplish with React, you can accomplish without React. I'm with the GP on that one.

Absolutely, then eventually sprinkle some PWA or Web Components stuff.