This is a spreadsheet that I have built in React and then migrated to Vanilla JS, and I claim that Vanilla JS is better suited for building such complex interfaces. React story Almost nobody uses Vanilla JS nowadays to build web apps. React has taken over the world. And that’s fair. If it was not bringing value, it wouldn’t be as successful. So this declarative model of React is indeed valuable.
Right? Like of course adding more code for the browser to run is going to be slower at run time. It saves development time. Goofy article.