Author made a two page static website without React. Okay? Congrats?
Because, you know, users just love seeing a bunch of grey boxes shimmer and dance on a white background for several seconds before the magic really starts to happen.
So any exercise which demonstrates that there just might be an alternative to this philosophy should be applauded.
This guy asked what we will use in the front-end. I said react and he was like "amazing, good job, it will be great" and the talked about we should always use react. So yes, there are places where react is used without question.
Also, we will use snowflake as a backend while indexing would make everything a lot faster and the budiness logic is done by 800+ line sql (stored procedure).
I ranted about this in another thread a few months ago and I stand by what I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34857513
This has nothing to do with React, this is a placeholder rendering strategy employed by many different frameworks and languages.The rendering strategies are orthogonal to the framework.
I've written many websites entirely in React but you'd never know it, because they're all SSG. I've done hybrid SSR + SSG + placeholder/delayed load.
I could have done all of that with .NET, Elixir, etc. too because it has nothing to do with the language/framework.