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I had also avoided modern web up until very recently. I focused only on Django sites and wrote custom JavaScript as necessary. I even did a 3 month django project with a view that was almost entirely JavaScript—it would have been a perfect candidate for react but I refused. As a compromise with myself I used es6 js on that and eliminated use of jQuery from my code. About a month ago I started work on react. I had ver…
Thanks. I really appreciate the story. I'm a long time Django fan so your story resonates. Maybe I'll give React another try one of these days...
The other thing I’d add is that on my “old” projects, my JS is way better now that I’ve practiced so much es6 in React.