I've spent the previous month working with React for the first time and I find myself longing for the simpler days. There's absolutely no reason why it was needed for this project, much less for it needing to be a SPA. The codebase is bloated, the dev environment is slow and unwieldy (even on my M1 Max) and just doing simple things takes longer. The only small saving grace is we're using TypeScript.

If we're ever in a position to rewrite it I'll be pushing hard for Rails or Django with simple server rendered HTML. Anything less would be doing us and our internal customers a disservice in terms of how quickly we can deliver features.