He&#x27;s not trying to make an argument against React.  I take him at his word here, mostly because it was indeed helpful for me:<p>&quot;If you want to use React, fine, I am not trying to convince anyone not to. I just want to show that components in a JavaScript application are quite simple to do and do not require any framework at all to do so.&quot;<p>There are a lot of less experienced web developers being steered towards react that can gain a lot by understanding what is being laid out here, whereas I think more advanced developers like yourself have so much assumed knowledge that its hard for you to see past what from your perspective are glaring differences&#x2F;inadequacies in the approach he&#x27;s taking in the article.