A React app got pulled after 3 days. The plain-HTML rebuild doubled completions (mohkohn.co.uk)
The site faced millions in fines if customer satisfaction slipped below 96%. The rebuild used Astro, server-rendered each wizard step as its own page, and stored progress in the backend — one user finished a form a month after starting it.
A staff engineer in the thread described doing the same migration in reverse: ripping React out of an internal app and discovering he no longer needed a build process at all.
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