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Sep 30, 2024 11 min read

From jQuery to React: 20 Years of Frontend Evolution

I've been writing JavaScript since 1999. jQuery felt like magic. React feels inevitable. This is the story of how we went from DOM manipulation to declarative UIs, and why the future probably isn't React.

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