Do you need react at this point? Isn’t it just html/css/components?

I remember the birth of React was because Facebook had a problem - you would add a comment and your notification bar would sometimes not get updated.

They had so many bugs with normal html / css that they wanted to solve this on the application layer - to make inconsistent UI elements unrepresentable.

So they came up with react with global state - because in their use case changing one thing does affect a bunch of other unrelated things, and they all need to sync together.

I mean honestly that’s what I use React _for_ - especially with contexts it’s very easy to express all of this complex interconnected state of a webapp in a consistent way.

And of course there are other ways to solve it - for example with elixir/phoenix you just push all that complexity to the backend and trust in websockets and the BEAM.

I just feel that if you really don’t need global state, then react kinda isn’t needed as well…