I stopped using React for simple tools… and started shipping 10x faster with ONE HTML file (opens in new tab)

I didn’t quit React because it’s bad. I quit it because I noticed a pattern. Every time I wanted to build something small and useful, I ended up building something way too complex. It always started the same way: “this will be a quick project”. But then I would open a React setup, add a bundler, think about folder structure, install dependencies, and suddenly the actual tool was no longer the focus. I was building infrastructure instead of building the thing. So I tried a constraint One rule:...