I went back and forth with this idea; but in the end I took a read over the Jquery code. It's very helpful since they mark down what browser bug is being worked around in every instance.
After reading through it fully, I found that if I wanted real IE 8/9 support then jQuery was the only answer for complex dom interactions because all the other systems not built on jQuery have either dropped IE8 support (like React), or are for business domains where IE8 support isn't an issue.
Anyways; there's no reason you can't use jQuery + React.
After reading through it fully, I found that if I wanted real IE 8/9 support then jQuery was the only answer for complex dom interactions because all the other systems not built on jQuery have either dropped IE8 support (like React), or are for business domains where IE8 support isn't an issue.
Anyways; there's no reason you can't use jQuery + React.