I'm totally with you that the basics are important, but on the other a big chunk of devs are using frameworks.
The important part is to tell people what is done by the framework and what is DOM, I think.
Also, a bit unrelated in the discussion here, I will probably teach mobile development next semester and tought about using React-Native, so using React in this course could help to minimize the amount of stuff to learn in both of these courses.
I thought about this.
I'm totally with you that the basics are important, but on the other a big chunk of devs are using frameworks.
The important part is to tell people what is done by the framework and what is DOM, I think.
Also, a bit unrelated in the discussion here, I will probably teach mobile development next semester and tought about using React-Native, so using React in this course could help to minimize the amount of stuff to learn in both of these courses.
good choice!