> Why are people using React to write simple ecommerces?

What leads you to believe React is not well suited to simple ecommerce sites?

1. It's a solution meant for highly interactive app-like websites, not static-content driven websites like ecommerces. React in this context is just the wrong tool for the problem that will give you a huge array of performance, bugs and ux problems.

2. Extensive ecommerce experience including Disney, Carnival Cruises, Booking, TUI, and some of the European leaders in real estate and professional home building tools among the others.

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motorest an hour ago | parent [-]

> 1. It's a solution meant for highly interactive app-like websites, not static-content driven websites like ecommerces. React in this context is just the wrong tool for the problem that will give you a huge array of performance, bugs and ux problems.

Strongly disagree. React is not about interactivity, but reactivity. If you have to consume an API and update your app based on the responses, React does all the heavy lifting for you without requiring full page reloads.

On top of that, and as a nice perk, React also gives you all the tools you will ever need to optimize perceived performance.

Claiming that a tool designed for reactive programming is not suited for the happy flow of reactive programming is simply fundamentally wrong.

	▲	epolanski an hour ago \| parent [-]
		1. React didn't invent SPAs and reactivity. 2. Ecommerces are not highly dynamic pages. They are overwhelmingly static content with an occasional configurator/cart/search. All things that can be embedded with whatever library you like (including React), or even better none at all. 3. Seo and performance is what really matters in ecommerces. The only minor exceptions are shops like Amazon or Airbnb, but that's unrelated to their seo and performance. 4. I've been writing React and ecommerces using React and similar with millions of daily users for a decade :)