Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
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Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
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Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#2The author makes some fair points but I also think part of it is learning. It sounds like they had finished learning React and the ecosystem and all that was left was finding React bugs, and occasionally identifying ways to work around React's way of doing things. While they are still at a stage of learning Web APIs which means exciting discoveries.
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#3I'm moving towards vanilla JavaScript for my platform, and one of the things that I've discovered is that if you have a reactive data source then you don't need a lot of framework. Granted, I'm taking advantage that the core platform is much more stable than a decade ago.
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#4I'm moving towards vanilla JavaScript for my platform, and one of the things that I've discovered is that if you have a reactive data source then you don't need a lot of framework. Granted, I'm taking advantage that the core platform is much more stable than a decade ago.
What is a reactive data source?
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#5The rendering part resonate with me. I've tried in some side projects SolidJS framework and I really enjoy that the rendering of each component occurs once! Easier to not fall into some traps that React has.
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#6I'm moving towards vanilla JavaScript for my platform, and one of the things that I've discovered is that if you have a reactive data source then you don't need a lot of framework. Granted, I'm taking advantage that the core platform is much more stable than a decade ago.
What is a reactive data source?
I imagine a webhook source could be a reactive data source or any stream based API
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#7I'm moving towards vanilla JavaScript for my platform, and one of the things that I've discovered is that if you have a reactive data source then you don't need a lot of framework. Granted, I'm taking advantage that the core platform is much more stable than a decade ago.
What is a reactive data source?
To me a reactive data source would be something like Asana, Trello, Teamwork or on an ecommerce site it could be the cart widget. Basically any type of data that needs to react without requiring a page reload or any data source that needs to sync with another users inputs in real time.
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#8If all you need is a couple of basic forms and some basic interaction, you can do it all with vanilla JS but let's not kid ourselves. This will not allow you to build very rich apps without implementing a significant chunk of the frameworks you dislike so much. In fact, I would even say that if this is not a core part of your product, you are simply wasting time and resources. There is a huge amount of man-hours poured into making these frameworks work correctly under any condition.
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#9My ad for web components: btw I used to use react
Re: Why I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
#10The author makes some fair points but I also think part of it is learning. It sounds like they had finished learning React and the ecosystem and all that was left was finding React bugs, and occasionally identifying ways to work around React's way of doing things. While they are still at a stage of learning Web APIs which means exciting discoveries.
Yeah agreed. The arc of learning seems to be…
This is interesting -> this is the best thing in the world -> here’s how this could be better
The “use the platform” people have been making this case for web components for at least 5 years now. The reality is WC will take off when and if they are a better alternative and even then they’ll need to be paired with some sort of framework. They may even make their way into React one day.
The only thing that bugs me about these takes is React is using the platform. It works great in all major browsers, it’s not some extension like Flash. It’s the platform.