How? It's the most painful, difficult, slow, frustrating, confusing programming experience I've ever had in my 25 years.
It's made me want to leave the industry completely and I honestly think I will after this project.
It has single handedly slaughtered and destroyed my quarter century love affair with programming.
It's a wildly inflexible architecture that aggressively forces their users to conform to an orthodoxy that's fluid and always changing. So you get a pile of inherently unmaintainable, unavoidably messy code that is deprecated the day you write it.
It's sheer insanity. Trying to get horizontal communication between components.
I'm slapped and told "no don't do it that way" and then I'm given half a dozen extraordinarily convoluted ways to do it instead.
They say "you aren't thinking in react". There is no thinking in react because there's a bunch of different ways to go about it and each one fights against the limitations voluntarily imposed by the framework.
Each one is a hack to get around the needless artificial barriers that exist there for no damn reason other than to make life harder.
Pass a parameter with an onclick handler. Again, I get slapped around as no that's not how it's done.
Why isn't it easier? Why is the Framework requiring me to do more work, to set up an indirection? Why am I working more with it then without it? Why does it give me less, do less, and require more from me?
It's literally the most complicated convoluted and elaborately complex way to do what should be simple and direct things. Every task gets a layer or 4 of complexity slapped on top of it.
It's like they replaced Galileo's chart with epicycles because they have to appease some invisible theory gods.
It's theory that has literally zero hard evidence as to why doing something directly is bad but doing the same thing with a bunch of weird generators callbacks and hooks is good.
In my 5 years of working with it, it's always without failure been the worst catastrophic mistake on every project, blowing through budgets and deadlines like nothing else.
Productivity is slaughtered. Otherwise 10x engineers become 1/10x. It's remarkable how much it stagnates and destroys everything.
This is pure Jim Jones cult magic stuff. It literally only exists to make people feel special and elite while doing what should be simple stuff.
I'm quitting engineering after this thing ships. I simply do not have the words for how much I despise react. It's the most despicable creation I've ever laid eyes on.
I honestly want to have absolutely nothing to do with programming now. After React it makes me physically nauseous.