React?

[timothystewart6]

While LittleLink has provided a simple to use web site, the way in which it is customized is limited. I feel like moving to react give us more flexibility and we aren't bound to the original implementation of just static HTML and CSS.

• server side rendering + client side rendering
• easier to test
• not limited to shell scripts
• css can be broken up
• more control over meta tags and elements
• easier to contribute to?
• more flexibility on env variables

while making the choice of using a nodejs server has served us well (pun intended) adding react on top of this will give us more tools and a more modern dev stack.

[timothystewart6]

Also, I want to be sure that the API going forward is non breaking. This means that env variables now will continue to have the same contract and types they did before. Also, react js just becomes and implementation detail, something that no one using this container needs to know unless they are curious.