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how so? I was under the impression React is a frontend framework, and I'm exclusively talking about the backend here.

(plus, my thing is compiled to a single executable and not using JavaScript.)

React is just a way to procedurally generate templated HTML in the frontend. You can do the same thing in the backend but it just makes rerenders more expensive which could matter depending on how input heavy your application is. For example, if you update a row in the table, do you have to reload the entire page or just the row?

my bad, I wrote "web application" above—I meant to say "website", like, year-2008-level-of-interactivity stuff. I'm neither interested in nor proposing a solution for anything on the frontend side of things at all, because I'd suspect you're correct, I would probably just reinvent React et al.

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