I’ve been getting into SSR with JSX as a template engine using kita. You still get full typescript analysis and composability. It beats any other SSR web templating system I’ve used.

I agree the need for everything to be a react app by default has gotten out of control. But I think if you’re a startup with unknown future needs it’s hard to ignore the flexibility and power of something like react. If you know you’re just making a CRUD app and good old fashioned form POSTs will do then it’s beautiful to have that speed and the lightweight pages.

You do the crud app and then they want: just make this to edit inline. You do some Ajax api Call with a tiny js. Then you need more and more. Then you have a mess and you’d be better with react. I still can’t find a project id be better of without react. When I tried without it bite me very quickly.