Comment by geoffeg

I worked with a team of developers tasked with creating a few 100% static websites. Single page, no interactivity, nothing dynamic. They were talking about which React components to use, server APIs to build, etc when I asked why they didn't just write HTML or use a static site generator and host the page in S3. They didn't know how to write vanilla HTML, they had never used it for more than bootstrapping a React app.