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React is winning by default and slowing innovation

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Re: React is winning by default and slowing innovation

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Post by duxup »

With these articles I'm a little tired of them in that if your workplace can't possibly consider anything else and that's a big deal to you ... kinda feel like you've got a choice to make. Does that make sense for a given individual? Maybe.

Otherwise the front end land is still very dynamic and so on, I think it's great, there are lots of options.

If some boring insurance company doesn't pick the coolest new framework and picks react instead. I don't think that's a problem. Gotta go be with the cool kids to do the cool new things.

Re: React is winning by default and slowing innovation

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Post by chairmansteve »

duxup wrote: post #2

With these articles I'm a little tired of them in that if your workplace can't possibly consider anything else and that's a big deal to you ... kinda feel like you've got a choice to make. Does that make sense for a given individual? Maybe. Otherwise the front end land is still very dynamic and so on, I think it's great, there are lots of options. If some boring insurance company doesn't pick the coolest new framewor…

Plus, I have no interest in front end innovation. I think HN and Craigslist are as good aw it gets.

Re: React is winning by default and slowing innovation

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Post by appreciatorBus »

chairmansteve wrote: post #3
duxup wrote: post #2

With these articles I'm a little tired of them in that if your workplace can't possibly consider anything else and that's a big deal to you ... kinda feel like you've got a choice to make. Does that make sense for a given individual? Maybe. Otherwise the front end land is still very dynamic and so on, I think it's great, there are lots of options. If some boring insurance company doesn't pick the coolest new framewor…

Plus, I have no interest in front end innovation. I think HN and Craigslist are as good aw it gets.

The day we stop "innovating" in front end by inventing new UI's every month, global productivity is going to skyrocket.

Re: React is winning by default and slowing innovation

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Post by danielvinson »

I think this article discounts the reasons behind frontend decisions... priorities are absolutely fast execution time and ease of hiring. There is very, very little reason to care about optimizing frontend performance for a vast majority of apps. Users just don't care. It doesn't make the company more money.

If a framework is easy to use and everyone knows it, it's simply the best choice for 90%+ of teams.

Re: React is winning by default and slowing innovation

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Post by leptons »

Front-end has seen plenty of innovation, so much that it causes a lot of burnout. So many people seem to want to reinvent the wheel for various reasons - to get recognition, to do things their own way, etc., while the existing trending tech hardly sees the surface scratched and continues to work just fine for most workloads.

>“But proven at scale!” jQuery was proven at scale too. Past success doesn’t guarantee future relevance.

jQuery is still one of the most used front-end libraries, used on 80%+ of all websites. It's easy, it gets the job done, and a lot of sites don't require more than jQuery. jQueryUI can actually do a lot of stuff to build basic web applications. React and every other tech mentioned in the article is just too heavy for most website needs. When you need a build step, that increases the complexity and requirement for developer resources compared to something simple like jQuery, which is probably why jQuery still gets used so much.

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