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A note I’ve internalized lately: there is a middle ground.

You can write excellent, lightweight React apps by simply writing semantic HTML and taking advantage of the platform (declarative form validations, a simple CSS pipeline, etc). It doesn’t have to be madness in the front-end.

NextJS, in particular, keeps the build pipeline quite simple.




In the React ecosystem, Remix.run embraces a much simpler approach than Next.js.




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