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We wrote enterprise applications with jQuery and Backbone. It didn't scale. React fixed everything. There is no post-React. I'm not "technology-agnostic"- I only use React, and wil…

Hey actually React has nothing to do with Megacorp at all. We adopted React in 2015 on a small team (less than 10 engineers) as did many other small startups at that time. The deci…

No, the career growth happened in 2015 when we adopted React and stopped endlessly inserting JS and CSS tags from jQuery plugins. Backbone made things worse. Angular made things wo…

> the monstrosity it turned into Literally what? React is responsible for infinitely scaling frontend features and career growth I never could have imagined.

Bingo. Smart people understand the domain of interview questions (which we know is contrived) and typically can study enough to implement the solutions. It's not always about getti…

can I get a quick rundown of these guys?

React, Redux, styled-components.

Sure, book a free call with me here: react.school/call

Software engineers that replace things with functionally equivalent things don't get a lot of actual work done and typically aren't employed for very long either. So, the churn had…

The prevailing view here is that JavaScript is a nightmare to develop with when in fact, there is actually a bit of a golden age going on right now. It's never been more stable and…

Oh, it's this thread again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29552322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740593 https://news.y…

Yes, functionality would require skills, and skills require opinionated tools. Opinions require taking a stance, and that's the last thing anyone here wants to do.

You didn't need TypeScript. That was your first mistake. If you had chosen Create-react-app (the official boilerplate) - that's all you need. Hello world right out of the box. Noth…

JavaScript framework churn (on the frontend) ended 6 years ago. The only thing keeping this meme going is commenters on HN.

Yes I totally understand your point of view. I spent almost a decade paying off a six figure debt for my CS degree. The funniest part? I learned almost nothing about web developmen…

I'm saddened that we're comparing a degree in CS to a subscription to Codecademy. I am curious if you've gotten a degree yourself, and whether that degree was from a reputable scho…

Thanks for the explanation, this makes me profoundly sad and is completely absurd. They call it "minting" which I actually thought was a neat way of putting the image itself on cha…

This surely can't be true for the typical image-based NFTs? I thought the entire point is that the full JPEG is embedded in the blockchain, thus not being dependent on any image ho…

I wrote jQuery in production for 5 years and then switched to React for 6 years in production at a half dozen companies. In my opinion, nothing can be improved further. I love writ…

You don't need to write a bunch of JS, that's why JavaScript frameworks like React exist to make this easy. JavaScript is the only client-side scripting language on the browser tha…