I did web dev from 2012-2015, until I moved into doing security engineering. I started doing some React tutorials on the side in December and now have a small project at work that uses it. I do not consider myself a web dev, so I will take any actual web dev's opinions over mine, but React seems nice!

At first it seemed a bit complicated, but looking back at the stack I left behind in 2015 (LAMP, numerous JS libraries, Bootstrap, some Ruby was starting to creep in), it actually is a little more consolidated.

I guess I should bookmark my comment and check back in a year from now in case I am still using React and see how my thoughts change by then!