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Discussion on: What are the things that scare you as a Developer? 🎃

 
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Rammina

Oh, yeah! Vanilla Javascript/HTML/CSS would perform better than React for simple noninteractive webpages. It also has better SEO.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Vanilla JS would perform better than React for ALL websites. Frameworks become handy when the complexity of the site means that development using raw JS would start becoming a nightmare... in these cases, a framework would likely be easier to manage. It's a trade-off