Does this mean we are slowing down and things will mature? Hopefully.
Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?
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#2Nature is healing.
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#3Yeah and it’s been like that for a while. I’ve been a bit confused by people here thinking that’s still a thing in recent months. Personally I stopped caring several years ago though, so maybe I just subconsciously filter it out
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#4GPT knowledge cutoff is eons ago in js time.
They all had to go back to React for it to write code for them :D
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#5AI "frameworks" like langchain have overtaken the space JS frameworks took previously.
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#6There was a point where over half of them were React and everyone seems satisfied with that.
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#7HN posts follow tech hype. AI is hot right now. Another thing will come and take its place in due time.
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#9There was a point where over half of them were React and everyone seems satisfied with that.
All of the JS framework posts I do see are about how they don't like React. There are two kinds of frameworks, the kind people don't complain about, and the kind they use.
So it seems people mostly settled on React. They're grumpy about it but it does the job and there seems to be no alternative compelling enough to complain about.
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#10React is now the de facto choice and much less painful than past de facto choices, is my take on why. It has a mature and healthy ecosystem, and its relatively small surface makes it easy to learn and predictable, while declarative GUI in general is low on footguns compared to ye ol two-way data binding.
Many of the competitors springing up define themselves in terms of React, either as an improvement or a foil. But if you're just trying to get things done, it's hard to go wrong with it - and in a practical sense, not a "nobody got fired" sense.