Honestly, I made the jump from vanilla HTML/CSS to straight up React in the past year. I didn't even do much jQuery/JS. Professionally, I was just doing design in it's purest sense I guess. So I didn't go through the evolution of frameworks over the years. That said, I like: Components. Especially coupled with Atomic Design Easy learning curve React + React native is very enticing. Learn once, write multiple times. It almost feels like getting 3 for the price of one. Over the years, I tried learning Android and iOS dev, but I never got my head around it. The virtual dom

That presentation is on my 'to watch' list, but this blogpost that explains the concepts in cartoon made Redux click for me: https://code-cartoons.com/a-cartoon-intro-to-redux-3afb775501a6