Ask HN: Should I even bother with React?
React is a very heavy handed framework. There are many things in react that are React specific like state, effects, context, etc. For large projects its fantastic because you would want all those things but for smaller projects it&#x27;s complete overkill unless you&#x27;re already familiar with it.<p>I suggest you look at these frameworks:<p>* Vue: Personally have never used it but from everything I heard, it&#x27;s much easier and more straightforward than React.<p>* Svelte: I&#x27;ve used this framework and it&#x27;s amazing. Intuitive and very fast. Some things are specific to svelte and sveltekit but for the most part you are writing plain HTML, CSS and JS code.<p>* SolidJS: Also have never used this but heard good things about it. It uses JSX tags just like react does but it&#x27;s far far simpler.<p>There&#x27;s also Preact but it&#x27;s main selling point is to be a &quot;lighter&quot; React, so expect similar complexity here.