Moving on from React, 2 Years Later

It’s been an even busier year and change for Scholarly. We’re coming up on 3 years in business. We’ve raised a small round of funding from our existing investors, grown the team in both Denver and Seattle, and continue growing in all dimensions. I’m trying to do an annual review of a decision to move away from React in ~2023 to see how things are turning out. You can read the original posts, Moving on from React and Moving on from React, a Year Later. Where are we today? What a wild 18 months it’s been. Since the last post, we’ve moved from tab-completion and copy-paste LLM-aided development to full-on agents with things like Claude Code. We’ve also grown the team and we have re-installed React (gasp!). The decision to re-install React was solely driven by React Flow. It’s the best diagram tool we found, and thought it was worth eating our hat. Unlike some of the other libraries we use and pay for, it’s not currently packaged as Vanilla JavaScript. We’ve also deployed React in a…