On: The impact of removing jQuery on our web performan...

[tofuahdude]

React's core functionality is to manage the relationship between state and the dom.

jQuery lets you imperatively manipulate the dom.

They're different use cases; calling one useful and the other not isn't a very accurate representation.

[eastbound → tofuahdude]

No, React’s strength is to componentize your webapp, allowing several teams to work on objects that can be reused by each other.

[tofuahdude → eastbound]

Sure, it does that too, but that is not its runtime purpose.

Many, many approaches solve organizing your code; React is in the middle of a large pack here.