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You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

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Re: You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

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React is popular because it's pushed by Meta.

React is popular because it mainstreamed components as a concept to modularize and reuse UI.

Vue is better. It’s just pushed by Meta is why it’s more used.

Re: You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

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Counterpoint: I'm currently employed building many apps for an enterprise you'll never visit. React+Typescript rewrite of our legacy "lean" Javascript has measurably improved the productivity of the team and the maintainability of code. I can't imagine going back to learning bespoke libraries written by (especially!) hotshot cowboy coders. React makes everybody on the team better, and literally no customer has ever c…

> I can't imagine going back to learning bespoke libraries written by (especially!) hotshot cowboy coders you are giving too much credit to the React and NextJS maintainers. They are also "hotshot cowboy coders" whatever that means.

> They are also "hotshot cowboy coders" whatever that means.

Popular public libraries are exactly the place for Hotshot Cowboy Coders. Boring bespoke software is not.

A specific: generic machines taking in untyped data, executing unspecified functions at runtime. Thrilling to write, awful to maintain.

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