This illustrates greatly why React got so popular.
If you look at the React code, it's 99% "just" JavaScript and HTML. The only proprietary function is `useState`, and even the people who have never touched React probably understand what `useState` does in this code without having to open the docs.
Also, in the Backbone code, half of the application relies on the string selector `.space-y-2`. So if someone in your team changes this class (or add it on another element), and forgets to ctrl+F `space-y-2` and change the string everywhere else, half of the application is broken. Also the layout/style for the checks list is repeated twice (in `render` and `updatePassword`), so if someone forgets to change both, the UI will be inconsistent once the user enters their password. And this a 50 LOC app… imagine now the same problems in a 10k+ LOC app. Maintenance hell.
I don't understand how the author wrote those two examples, didn't see the problems with the Backbone version and conclude there is no differences between both frameworks. React solved the problems present in the Backbone version.
If you look at the React code, it's 99% "just" JavaScript and HTML. The only proprietary function is `useState`, and even the people who have never touched React probably understand what `useState` does in this code without having to open the docs.
Also, in the Backbone code, half of the application relies on the string selector `.space-y-2`. So if someone in your team changes this class (or add it on another element), and forgets to ctrl+F `space-y-2` and change the string everywhere else, half of the application is broken. Also the layout/style for the checks list is repeated twice (in `render` and `updatePassword`), so if someone forgets to change both, the UI will be inconsistent once the user enters their password. And this a 50 LOC app… imagine now the same problems in a 10k+ LOC app. Maintenance hell.
I don't understand how the author wrote those two examples, didn't see the problems with the Backbone version and conclude there is no differences between both frameworks. React solved the problems present in the Backbone version.