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I get the sense the React team don't really care about SSR as it's not a massive use case for FB.
The React team has been focusing much more on SSR lately. I think it's likely we'll see big things in 2021.
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I think create-react-app is much more beginner friendly. Fewer concepts to learn. Rolling your own or using script tags to begin with is also an option (see this course for an example: https://egghead.io/courses/the-beginner-s-guide-to-react )
And create-react-app would be all I would ever need except that SEO on single page apps that don't have data loaded upon load really sucks compared to server side rendered pages. Is there a way to build a site using create-react-app and enable server side rendering without implementing a whole other framework like Nextjs?
Am I the only developer that feels that React ... and perhaps the whole web paradigm ... is about the worst way to think about and develop client GUIs? After using Google's new Flutter framework (which is built to develop cross platform apps: iOS, Android, Web, embedded) I felt like I had my eyes open. The structure seems so much more logical and easy to navigate. The Web (and React) paradigm of putting some code in…
JSX is not HTML, even though its syntax is very similar. It’s a data structure that’s renderer-agnostic. It can be rendered to HTML, or to a live DOM, or to other outputs. IIRC, Netflix uses React to render at least some components on entirely non-web interfaces like smart TVs. To me, that fact is what makes React (and other libraries like Preact that have a similar interface) more compelling than the template-orient…
The fact is you need to change syntax to describe your layout, instead of just using the syntax of the language you are already coding in.
Am I the only developer that feels that React ... and perhaps the whole web paradigm ... is about the worst way to think about and develop client GUIs? After using Google's new Flutter framework (which is built to develop cross platform apps: iOS, Android, Web, embedded) I felt like I had my eyes open. The structure seems so much more logical and easy to navigate. The Web (and React) paradigm of putting some code in…
React doesn't have HTML templates though…? You can also have CSS-in-JS if you really want.
Am I the only developer that feels that React ... and perhaps the whole web paradigm ... is about the worst way to think about and develop client GUIs? After using Google's new Flutter framework (which is built to develop cross platform apps: iOS, Android, Web, embedded) I felt like I had my eyes open. The structure seems so much more logical and easy to navigate. The Web (and React) paradigm of putting some code in…
Flutter has even more abstraction than what most people are using for web clients. That doesn't come for free, though it tends to always look like 100% upside until you actually use it and see the trade-offs it makes. Ruby on Rails also used to attract a lot of comments like yours until people realized the trade-offs. Btw, if Flutter makes the web dev paradigm look bad, then I wonder what you think of the iOS/Android…
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In short With Next you control when things are rendered: SSG/SSR/CSR, so you get much more flexibility and can cover more use-cases. And it is React based, which is a huge plus, especially if you adhere to a modern style.
What use cases does that cover though that Hugo and Jekyll can't? For landing pages and typical business websites for example, some basic ways to create reusable snippets of HTML feel enough for me. I don't want to have to deal with a lot of React, SPA stuff and JavaScript build issues unless it's really worth it.
When statically rendered, React is mostly just an alternative templating language.
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React doesn't have HTML templates though…? You can also have CSS-in-JS if you really want.
Whatever it's called ... JSX ... fact is you have to dive out of javascript to describe your UI in a different syntax, that's the point.
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No. People have said this about every web framework since PHP5 and its not true. Web development does tend to favor fast iteration which can lead to problems if the tech debt compounds but that doesn’t mean the people aren’t developers, at all.
So what you're saying is that React spawned an army of people who we can call developers, despite them not knowing how browsers and HTTP works, what algorithms are, how to approach developing your javascript app so it doesn't become spaghetti mess in 24 seconds and abusing terminology from systems programming just in order to make their field appear more serious than it is? Now, what word could we use for people who…
I understand this is a Vercel framework and probably a great distribution channel for new business and increasing overall revenue. But, I'm a bit disappointed the "next" version is more about Vercel's own internal business agenda. Promoted as amazing "DX" is not really true. It had a better DX compared to the other tools, that's why it grew so popular, but not seeing anything real DX related in version "10". Other to…