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"Web libraries (react, etc)" are just using HTML and CSS / the standard DOM for rendering instead of Canvas. You don't need to use any "library" to render in that way, it's built into the browser.

My most recent web game uses both standard DOM and Canvas for rendering different parts of the UI and text, and both look equally good to me. You do have to have set up the Canvas rendering correctly, especially for sharper displays like Apple Retina displays with higher pixel densities, but when done properly it looks very sharp and has no issue IMO.




Yup, but developer productivity with web library (e.g. react) > no library vanilla dom manipulation > canvas




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