Runtime interactivity must ship react in js bundle?

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Hi team,

I’m an engineering lead for a SaaS startup and our marketing team is interested in switching from storyblok to builder.io due to the sweet WYSIWYG editor.

Our current setup in storyblok is very home brew’d, and our engineering team spent a lot of effort to ensure interactivity (via js) is kept to a minimum. We use react in node to statically generate html pages and push to S3.

One of our marketing team members did a POC demo of builder.io to the engineering team and one of our main concerns was that interactivity in builder.io requires react to be shipped in the client bundle, especially if we wanted to define custom components.

Is it possible to implement interactivity in builder.io with vanilla js (like, jquery style) instead of react?

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Yeah, Builder.io is React-heavy, so if you use custom components, React will need to be bundled. But you can definitely add interactivity with vanilla JS for simpler stuff. Just won’t have all the same React features, but it’s doable.