The reasons however are not so valid anymore in 2026.
Plain HTML has lots of extra features that did not exist in 2010 (form-validation and input-types, canvas, fetch, history-API), and some shortcomings have disappeared (like 'Flash of Unstyled Content'.)
Endless scrolling (made popular by Facebook/react) used to be heavy on the browser and sometimes made mobile devices unresponsive. That is not an issue anymore.
Tbh, I can't name a single issue we have today that requires large client-side frameworks for a fix.
Endless scrolling (made popular by Facebook/react) used to be heavy on the browser and sometimes made mobile devices unresponsive. That is not an issue anymore.
Tbh, I can't name a single issue we have today that requires large client-side frameworks for a fix.