React.js Whole site on react or apply react modularly?

Question

Web development

Now I'm sitting and thinking: in the development of a back-end site for displaying onDemand video. In fact, an entertainment resource. Thinking about the front end, I would very much like to use React, but I don’t know if it’s worth writing the site entirely in React or implementing some specific modules on it. Thank you.

Answer 1

At one time, I got hooked on react, because it allowed me to redo "pieces" of the product, and not the whole thing. Both customers liked it (less risk, faster) and I liked it.
You get it, the main plus if everything is on react - 100% SPA, which can then be shown as a project in a portfolio in this topic. It is especially worth considering a fully react web application if you are interested in similar work in the future.
It's not a small plus that in the case of React you will need to write an API and then the same API can be used in a mobile application (?)
The main disadvantage, perhaps, is development time. You will have to fill bumps both on routing and on how to assemble and lay it all out, etc. But, again, I don’t know the level, and besides, if the goal is to improve knowledge of react, then these problems are only at hand.
What are the goals of the project? This is what you need to get away from. If the goal is to try out a business model, then it's better to just do it faster. If the goal is to learn, do it on the stack you want to increase your knowledge about.