Does anybody like React?
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Does anybody like React?
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Re: Does anybody like React?
#2I’ve been lucky enough to avoid it. I’ve banned it at work as it is not the correct as preach for any of our work.
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#3I love it. Easy to write and understand
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#4i much prefer svelte but the rest of the world does not
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#5No more or less than I do the rest of the js ecosystem.
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#6It is the standard, and is extremely flexible. It was probably the wrong framework for most use-cases, which are often just CRUD screens. But, we are in an AI world now, so probably Javascript in general and even Typescript is starting to become the wrong move. Programming languages and frameworks which offer a ton of guarantees is what you need, now. In my humble opinion.
Re: Does anybody like React?
#7Its bloat. You can do shadow dom and web components in modern native JS.
State library is prob all you need now.
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#8I like React. And I have seriously tried the HTMX/Hotwire camp.
I wanted to make a back button use browser APIs to go back if the coming from the inbox, just link to the inbox otherwise to preserve scrolling. I had to wire the actions from the html to call the function that goes back, then in my controller determine the previous page and send the JS enabled back button or the hard link. My logic was spread out over 3 files!
With React I can have js in a component determine if the previous page was inbox, and based on that value show the back button JSX or the link. ALL IN ONE FILE. One conceptually entity for me to model vs 3 that do other things and this functionally is hammered in.
Is it slower? Definitely. But it makes me happy. Miserable in a corporate React slopbase? Blame your coworkers, it would definitely be worse without it.
Re: Does anybody like React?
#9I read one post before that really resonates with me, couldn't recall from where though:
You love JSX, you don't love React
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#10I read one post before that really resonates with me, couldn't recall from where though: You love JSX, you don't love React Many of the jobs in my location requires React though, so I have to tolerate it somehow.
I’m the opposite. I loved React (before its hook madness) but I hated JSX. I’ve been using a lispy language to write React since it first came out. Initially went with someone’s pet project and eventually switched to ClojureScript. If you are already tolerating a build tool to transform your code into a form browsers can run, why not switch to a better language that’s designed for nested tree structures?