As a non-React developer: forms, before React, were actually super simple. The author mentions they forgot how to do forms the normal way, but like, can you imagine how excited they'll be by the simplicity?
So that’s who writes this stuff. They literally don’t remember a world where you can build very simple things without state management, without scoped styles, without jsx.
I’m not an agist, but it’s like c’mon dude, it’s a blog, when did you start web development? Don’t write your own blog posts yet please, mature a little first. Way too much noise out there now days.
Why do you need type checking for your blog? You really going to double check that you’re posting a string or something? Do whatever you want, but stop posting about it like it doesn’t sound unnecessary to the rest of us.
> "Five years ago in 2015, we were sort of coming out of Jquery."
And HTML5 was still freshly standardized, Angular meant Angular.js, and your average web app was SSR MVC with view templates injected with controller variables, made interactive with jQuery.
Rails and MongoDB was the move, GraphQL would've been released the same year, and everyone would be convinced it was a fad and huge meme.
The React that would start to gain popularity around that time was a completely different ballgame. Redux wasn't hip yet, people were still using Flux from FB or Ken Wheeler's Flux plugin:
https://github.com/kenwheeler/mcfly
What a wild ride it's been.