React in 2014: ✅Make SPAs
React in 2014:
✅Make SPAs.
✅Use create-react-app.
React in 2022:
✅Make SPAs, native mobile, static, MPAs, and hybrid apps.
✅Use Vite, Next, Remix, Astro, etc.
✅HTTP via react-query, swr, Apollo, etc.
✅Routes via React Router, Remix, Next, Tanstack Router, etc...
React 2014: Simple, but limited.
React 2022: Powerful and remarkably flexible, but intimidating and fragmented. A massive number of compelling options to consider. The hardest part is keeping up with the churn and choosing between multiple compelling options.
Year correction: create-react-app came out in 2016.