There is some discourse on frameworks happening lacking nuance.
If you are building a mostly “read-only” website, you probably do not need and should not use React if you care about performance—and devs should care about performance.
If you are a building a Web app, you probably will need state management, advanced UI elements, i18n, other capabilities beyond what is built-into the Web platform’s that add many kilobytes more code *and that’s ok!*
Let pages be pages and apps be apps.
I agree.
Minimally interactive pages use of JavaScript should be minimal or zero, more so if users rarely stay for more of a page view.
JavaScript place is in internal corporate applications (because in these caching and REST APIs make wonders) and heavily interactive sites where use of JS is unavoidable.
Generally speaking: first, use HTML. If not enough, use CSS. Only resort to JS if it yields great advantages to your users.
