Recently I’ve been thinking about where frontend development is heading — especially now that AI-assisted UI generation and design-code workflows are becoming more realistic.
React is one of the most popular frontend libraries, but its architecture raises an important question:
Is React the right tool for a future where UI and logic could be handled by different roles?
For example: designers (with help from AI tools) can generate the UI structure, while frontend developers can focus on the logic.
Unlike frameworks such as Angular, Vue, Svelte, and others that separate markup (html) and logic (ts/js), React mixes markup, logic, state, and behavior all into the same block of code. That’s convenient for developers, but it can introduces challenges for design-to-code AI tools.
Tools that generate only templates (HTML) and CSS can produce cleaner and more predictable output. But when markup and logic are tightly coupled, it becomes harder to:
- keep code clean
- track only logic or only template changes
- automate UI generation
Is template, logic separation feels much more aligned with the direction automated UI generation heading? Designers or AI systems could generate clean templates, and developers could plug in the logic without responsibilities bleeding together. Could React’s architecture limit its effectiveness for future design-to-code workflows, generating messy code that’s difficult to maintain and forcing full-file reviews whenever designs change?
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