ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
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Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#2Certificate authority is invalid -- would never visit.
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#3It's an interesting theory but I don't see much to back it up.
In my own experience, developing rich UIs has been - after the initial learning curve - a way simpler task than using vanilla JS.
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#4Certificate authority is invalid -- would never visit.
It isn't for me.
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#5Leaving out the second-guessing and the search for motives, I can only say that I have only had positive experiences with React, and that the team I was part of is still working on their React app without losing any velocity after two years; I have never seen that happen with other frameworks or without frameworks at all.
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#6I think there is a tendency to reach for frameworks as a default instead of evaluating if they are really needed.
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#7Certificate authority is invalid -- would never visit.
It isn't for me.
The server isn't sending the intermediate CA certificate, so you'll get errors unless your browser has cached the LetsEncrypt intermediate (for example from having browsed a different site that sent the LetsEncrypt intermediate). "This server's certificate chain is incomplete. Grade capped to B."
Anyways, they score an "F" on SSLLabs because "This server is vulnerable to the OpenSSL Padding Oracle vulnerability (CVE-2016-2107) and insecure. Grade set to F."
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=typed.pw&s=10...
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#8Well, that's some serious tinfoilery. No one is forcing startups to use React, or to stay with it of they are stuck in development due to it. Facebook did not create and release one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks in order to intentionally hamstring other companies.
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#9Agree on the direction this post is going, but that's a really cynical way of looking at it. My perspective is that a combination of factors (and FB's engineering clout played no small part) in making React trendy enough where people started using it because it was cool, not because it actually solves their problem. And I'd imagine in a lot of cases those projects aren't complex enough to warrant React, and/or developers have dived in without really understanding how it works and what it does.
Re: ReactJS is a tax Facebook levies on startup web development
#10I've been using React for just about everything front-end wise for the past year. I don't think it's particularly hindered me, really. Sure, it was a learning curve, as was Redux, but now I understand those concepts better, my process is, I clone a 'react starter pack' from git, which has all of the build set-up I need, webpack, sass, ES6 etc, etc. And that's really it, I find it quicker to develop in React and Redux because the component approach, along with the immutability of Redux, allows me to overcome bugs pretty quickly. I find I run into less bugs, too, due to the predictability of doing everything the 'react/redux' way. I also find writing unit tests so easy in React, using 'dumb' components. So the result is, I've got some of the most bug-free, well tested front-end codebases I've ever worked on.
I guess everyone's experiences are different, and I understand that it's a difficult series of libraries to learn and understand fully, and that can be time consuming. But long-term I think it's a time saver.