61–68 of 68 posts
People (developers who use React) keep telling me it's not true that JSX and CSS in JS make you write the worst possible HTML.
I keep seeing them writing things like my title.
Go ahead keep working on it, but take the hype out. Let people decide on their framework without having to stumble upon a PR piece for React. No reason this project needs so much weight thrown behind it.
Do you actually work on the React code base or are you part of the marketing team behind React? Tried it, I'm amazed at the hype you guys throw behind this simple framework, looking for more things to steal/hype, facebook? Go ahead keep working on it, but take the hype out. Let people decide on their framework without having to stumble upon a PR piece for React. No reason this project needs so much weight thrown behi…
(Yes, I manage the team that builds React.)
Hi, I decided not to use React when I learned about JSX and CSS in JS. People (developers who use React) keep telling me it's not true that JSX and CSS in JS make you write the worst possible HTML. I keep seeing them writing things like my title .
React doesn’t care what HTML tags you render. If you see people using bad markup, perhaps that’s an opportunity for them to learn. It doesn’t sound like a React problem – if there’s anything on our site or in our docs that suggests otherwise, please let me know.
Do you actually work on the React code base or are you part of the marketing team behind React? Tried it, I'm amazed at the hype you guys throw behind this simple framework, looking for more things to steal/hype, facebook? Go ahead keep working on it, but take the hype out. Let people decide on their framework without having to stumble upon a PR piece for React. No reason this project needs so much weight thrown behi…
Can you help me understand what hype you mean? We don’t pay anyone to promote React. And everyone from Facebook you hear speaking about React is likely an engineer working in or on React, or an engineering manager for the same. (Yes, I manage the team that builds React.)
Do you actually work on the React code base or are you part of the marketing team behind React? Tried it, I'm amazed at the hype you guys throw behind this simple framework, looking for more things to steal/hype, facebook? Go ahead keep working on it, but take the hype out. Let people decide on their framework without having to stumble upon a PR piece for React. No reason this project needs so much weight thrown behi…
Can you help me understand what hype you mean? We don’t pay anyone to promote React. And everyone from Facebook you hear speaking about React is likely an engineer working in or on React, or an engineering manager for the same. (Yes, I manage the team that builds React.)
I'd bet posts like this got flagged by someone who works on React - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12284926.
React is nothing revolutionary, but you wouldn't know that from the PR apparatus that is facebook, and some people should be rightly concerned about facebook's motivations when the company seems to prize market share above all else. This post seems to fit in that puzzle for me.
I don't know if HN has the same attitude towards 'shilling' as reddit does - but I feel like the FB dev team is guilty of this offense from time to time.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you help me understand what hype you mean? We don’t pay anyone to promote React. And everyone from Facebook you hear speaking about React is likely an engineer working in or on React, or an engineering manager for the same. (Yes, I manage the team that builds React.)
I mean the guy who comes to your defense here also works on React. I don't think Google makes posts on Hacker News soliciting feedback on Angular and then has their devs start astroturfing the thread. It kind of proves my point. If you guys think this is the venue to get technical feedback, it shows that you guys don't know what you're doing, but I'm sure you do, because it's PR. I'd bet posts like this got flagged b…
The ~100 points this post has are also not from people who work on React (seeing as there's less than 10 of us). This indicates to me that people here do find this post interesting.
The post you linked also have dozens of comments from people explaining ways it is inaccurate. It's probably those people who flagged it, not us. (This is my first time seeing that post.)
I don't think we're tricking anyone into using React and I think we're always honest about who we are, but I'm sorry that our comments have come off as "shilling" and "astroturfing" to you. It's not why we're here.
I kinda enjoy working with React (because of JSX simplicity and composability). I think you could add easy support for some styling solution like it's done in Vue. I would focus on making React stable, fast and lightweight but improve on tooling and ecosystem around it. * I would like blessed way of extracting React components, so they can be reused between projects (like right click in IDE and share) - something lik…