I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML.
JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way.
I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that cannot (yet) but handled with HTML.
Or skip things like react entirely and use something declarative like htmx, less “glue code” you need to write and the server response can itself kick off new client side actions.