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I find it amazing how many different software development frameworks are out there. After all these years I still haven't bothered to look up what React is, and I probably will never need to. I will probably never get to maintain a codebase that uses it. So if being 'up-to-date' isn't something I will go for, how do I measure myself as a developer? I think I will go for something like 'having made a lot more regular people happy than I have frustrated'.

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You should try and use React first before deciding if it's actually helpful for you later.

In case of React, to me, i no longer bother with syncing state with html, something like `node.innerHTML = `${my_state}`

It's actually beneficial to me.

Yeah I spent some time with raw javascript, jQuery and angular, but React is the first web framework which actually feels like a decent solution to the problem of how to build interactive web applications, rather than just being another hack.

That sounds like something horrible that one never should have needed to bother with in the first place.

Like saying that with this new car, I no longer bother checking whether the wheels aren't about to fall off. :)

Probably around half of frontend developer jobs I see nowadays are for projects using react; and that number keeps going up.

If you do any web development at all, chances are you will have to work in a React codebase during the next decade

Not when one works at an agency that happens to bet on other stacks.

I don't understand why this is being downvoted. There is no negativity in the message.

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