POV: someone who has only been studying web development for a year, not professionally (yet).
To speak to each of your points in order...
1/2. A to-do list could theoretically be pretty simple. Using vanilla JS + HTML/CSS might be do-able. But making user interfaces is what React excels at. You could probably make the same app with fewer lines of code and have the code be far more human-readable and easier to work with if you use React. And if the project is huge, like, idk a massively popular social media site, then managing it all with vanilla JS would be a nightmare.
No matter one's feelings about Facebook as a company, it is hard to deny that there are some great developers there working on making React the best it can be. So are people HYPED about React BECAUSE of Facebook? I don't know, but since Facebook made React, it is hard to separate the two regardless.
Like I said, I am fairly new developer who is currently just a hobbyist, but my thought is that if you want to make an intuitive user interface with code that is easy to read and work with, then React is your friend. If you want to make a video game or something else? Idk, it seems like there are probably better avenues to go down.
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POV: someone who has only been studying web development for a year, not professionally (yet).
To speak to each of your points in order...
1/2. A to-do list could theoretically be pretty simple. Using vanilla JS + HTML/CSS might be do-able. But making user interfaces is what React excels at. You could probably make the same app with fewer lines of code and have the code be far more human-readable and easier to work with if you use React. And if the project is huge, like, idk a massively popular social media site, then managing it all with vanilla JS would be a nightmare.
No matter one's feelings about Facebook as a company, it is hard to deny that there are some great developers there working on making React the best it can be. So are people HYPED about React BECAUSE of Facebook? I don't know, but since Facebook made React, it is hard to separate the two regardless.
Like I said, I am fairly new developer who is currently just a hobbyist, but my thought is that if you want to make an intuitive user interface with code that is easy to read and work with, then React is your friend. If you want to make a video game or something else? Idk, it seems like there are probably better avenues to go down.