for me, I wrote javascript serializing classes that were matched in php years ago — and then used Ajax to update only the font end element that “called” the ajax — which must mean I wrote react years ago! I preserve regular html coding and just had an awesomely written javascript ajax class that checked for a pool of a requests in separate thread — and upon asynchronously receiving the results, updated the DOM element. how is this different? I even went one better — I allowed a serilaized version of javascript objects to be represented in a parallel php class. i did this in my spotwired Android app and spotwired.com too bad I never had marketing or thought making the code available to everyone — you can jsut download it and see it! Please credit me if you make a platform out of it thanks!