Pivoting From React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example – The New Stack
June 26, 2024
To develop the user interface of its web browser, Edge, Microsoft recently began moving away from React and other JavaScript frameworks to embrace what it called an “HTML-first” approach. Instead of using React to create the user interface — the most common web development paradigm today — the Microsoft Edge team pivoted to an approach it described as “markup-first, small bundles, and less UI-rendering JavaScript code.”
After we published that post, I was approached by a developer who had also made a similar transition. Julien Moulis is a senior frontend developer at a Swiss IT company called Eukleia, which is building a custom developer tool called Mindsapp. Moulis reached out to tell me that for Mindsapp, his team “decided to make the shift from React’s overwhelming VDOM to the fantastic modern DOM API.”
Source: Pivoting From React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example – The New Stack
We by no means advocate here that you should never use React or other frameworks. Rather that in at least some cases you may not need it.
Here’s a case study to get you thinking from the New Stack.
