React supports rendering to HTML ahead of time (SSR) which doesn't need any client-side javascript, and this is a prominent feature of most frameworks using React. This feature of React was one of its major innovations over many other front-end frameworks of the time.

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degamad a day ago | parent [-]

> React supports rendering to HTML ahead of time (SSR)...

So does XSLT?

	▲	throwaway290 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Literally not one person said XSLT can't do it. But in case you missed it somebody did said React can't do it and so XSLT is better. > build step with React and webpack and javascript absolutely required on the client-side This was a false statement. both XSLT and React can be used for this except React can additionally do a bunch of other stuff that does use JS and that XSLT can't do.