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> There is a reason React took off, and there is a reason people choose React.

Sure, there's a reason. Doesn't mean it's a good one :-/

> 5 years ago, I switched to NextJS. It's a spaghetti of NPM modules just to build a very static website for very simple content. Sure. But 5 years later, the very same site is still up. There is no maintenance involved as the site is hosted in Github. Not sure I'd say the same about WordPress.

Is 5 years considered a long time? Is that the bar? Because >6 years ago I wrote an internal site/app in C# using Jquery for front-end, and that is still up, working and being used by a few thousand people daily. It's even being extended every now and then.

No NPM, no React, no Vue, no Next, no front-end build step.




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