Why We Moved to React
one of the biggest changes was accepting that React is different from old way of doing things like with jquery.<p>I used jQuery to build 4k loc applications. It's a fucking blast when you are just wiring up the template and watching the UI come alive...to me that was the power of jQuery. No need to think, just go and make everything stick like glue.<p>Angular.js was also right in that regard....add annotation to HTML. but this shit doesn't scale when application grows.<p>I'm still frustrated that I can't write shit in jQuery anymore because HN have collectively ruled against it and I guess at 4k loc it has become very hairy.<p>But I still argue if your needs are pretty small, like make a small widget app that has two buttons and makes ajax request to an endpoint, no other frontend framework can even touch jQuery in this territory....<p>In fact the overhead of having to think about states, structures, components organized in hierarchy...this shit adds to my stress and I can't experiment fast...but then also was the stress from not being able to add new features because the jQuery app grew in complexity....<p>difficult times gentlemen difficult times. I've been holding on to jQuery since 2009...maybe it's time to venture out entirely with React.js? Or should I crawl back to the comfortable cave that is jQuery where I can make <i>anything</i> very quickly.