Writing web applications in 2026 I've been creating web pages for a long time. I started with Microsoft Frontpage, graduated to plain HTML (think table layouts, font color, limited css) and then when PHP v3 dropped I started building web applications. These applications were all server rendered, and when Google released Gmail/Calendar and everyone was like "The browser can do what?!". Then the user-experience we were offering with our template languages wasn't up to the task anymore. So, we adjusted and added jQuery to our applications with a splash of Bootstrap and it was OK for a while. Then as the projects grew, these jQuery scripts grew from helpful to unmaintainable and we were starting to build business logic in two places. At the time, I championed for React (Grunt/Gulp, React Classes) to save our sanity and became a spokesperson for React for everyone who asked, and lots who didn't. The promise of composability was too strong to ignore! Fast forward to 2026, and everything is…
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