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#10: This guide will be out of date in 3 months.

elcct 11y ago
Good that with Google you can limit your search to a certain time frame. Personally, when I Google stuff about React, I set filter to "Past month" so that most results are quite up to date. I wonder if in the future the project that you start doing in the morning will use outdated libs by the evening ;)
- marknutter 11y ago
  Does this not seem like a problem to anybody else? Wasn't the whole point of React that it was supposed to be simple? And yet things have gotten so complex you're giving advice that anything older than 3 months isn't even worth reading?
Retozi 11y ago
I really don't understand the underlying complaint of your comment that the React ecosystem is in constant flux (see what I did there?) I've been writing React SPAs for roughly two years now. Very few things have changed. The first app I've written roughly looks like the newest one. Couple of lessons learned here and there like everywhere else. Yes, there are many Flux libraries and different implementations. However, a decent State management solution for React is roughly 200-300 LOC. So there are many of those 200-300 LOC libraries. So what? If it's a big project, you should spend the time to figure out what fits YOUR project and YOUR team the best. If it's a side project, use the most popular with the best documentation and be done with it.
- hex13 11y ago
  The biggest advantage of this progress is that there is a lot experimentation with new kind of tools (for example Redux Dev Tools. This is fascinating. I mean Redux is great, but the fact that there are dedicated dev tools for this? Wow. I'm waiting for new tools (maybe every popular library from now on will have its own dev tools? Or maybe somebody will make universal dev tools for all React libraries?). I think what's happening inside React ecosystem and this constant flux of innovations is not comparable with anything in the webdev before (maybe except Ruby community which is also pretty innovative).
pka 11y ago
True. Damn progress :(

elcct 11y ago

Good that with Google you can limit your search to a certain time frame. Personally, when I Google stuff about React, I set filter to "Past month" so that most results are quite up to date. I wonder if in the future the project that you start doing in the morning will use outdated libs by the evening ;)

marknutter 11y ago
Does this not seem like a problem to anybody else? Wasn't the whole point of React that it was supposed to be simple? And yet things have gotten so complex you're giving advice that anything older than 3 months isn't even worth reading?

Retozi 11y ago

I really don't understand the underlying complaint of your comment that the React ecosystem is in constant flux (see what I did there?) I've been writing React SPAs for roughly two years now. Very few things have changed. The first app I've written roughly looks like the newest one. Couple of lessons learned here and there like everywhere else. Yes, there are many Flux libraries and different implementations. However, a decent State management solution for React is roughly 200-300 LOC. So there are many of those 200-300 LOC libraries. So what? If it's a big project, you should spend the time to figure out what fits YOUR project and YOUR team the best. If it's a side project, use the most popular with the best documentation and be done with it.

hex13 11y ago
The biggest advantage of this progress is that there is a lot experimentation with new kind of tools (for example Redux Dev Tools. This is fascinating. I mean Redux is great, but the fact that there are dedicated dev tools for this? Wow. I'm waiting for new tools (maybe every popular library from now on will have its own dev tools? Or maybe somebody will make universal dev tools for all React libraries?). I think what's happening inside React ecosystem and this constant flux of innovations is not comparable with anything in the webdev before (maybe except Ruby community which is also pretty innovative).

pka 11y ago

True. Damn progress :(