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Re: React Makes You Sad?

#4
React made me sad, so I switched to Mithril[1]. Not only is it significantly smaller in size, but it's way faster and includes a router and AJAX methods out of the box. I wish more people would give it a shot.

That said, I do still love React Native, and use React on a daily basis to take advantage of the "write once, run anywhere" paradigm.

[1] https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/

Re: React Makes You Sad?

#7
Lol. I found React interesting, too, but I don't like to read Javascript code, so I rolled my own React-like framework in Scala. Life is so much easier if you don't have to depend on other peoples mess.

Re: React Makes You Sad?

#10
I've just started playing with React and my general opinion is that it's a very 'Facebook' project. Lots of restrictions on what you can do and when keeping all of the coders in line with what you're supposed to be doing and following the 'Facebook' way of programming. I'm sure it's great for writing traditional crud apps, but anything outside of the box that it wasn't intended is a major pain requiring major hacks just to get around it's ideas of data protection and timing.

I'm sure there are plenty that like this rigidity, but for me, I'll pass.

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