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The company I work at wastes millions of dollars on maintaining a complex React frontend for no technical reason whatsoever. It amazes me.

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My previous 2 companies basically lost all marketshare because they _had to_ use Node + React for their in-house CRUD tools. The amount of time and money wasted is insane. We ended up doing most things with Airtable because the dev team(s) were too slow.

What you talking? I don't particularly endorse react but what are you comparing to? If we're talking plain js or jquery style dom manipulation react, or any of its competitor, is a vastly superior for any non-trivial app. If you're having a mostly static site I can believe you though.

Probably to simple server-side frameworks. Most web apps are based on navigation and forms, which can be done simpler with classic server-side MVC and some JS plugins for the more interactive parts. No need for client-side routing, solidifying HTTP API endpoints or duplicating data models & logic on the front-end.

Something like Laravel + alpinejs running on heroku or Google app Engine or a similar platform is what 90% of the typical crud saas webapps most of us build need.

But we definitely have more fun with React SPAs and Go microservices on Kubernetes :)

(Notice I'm listing the shinny toys of the usual 3 layers at every company)

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