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Thanks for posting your React version and offering a bullet list of real points of critique. That said, please don't use the word "trolling" to make what is es

by jonahx 11y ago

Thanks for posting your React version and offering a bullet list of real points of critique. That said, please don't use the word "trolling" to make what is essentially an ad-hominem attack against someone whose point you disagree with. The author probably spent at least an hour, if not multiple hours, thinking through a problem and presenting a solution as a blog post. Whatever you think of his argument, this is clearly not the work of the troll. "He's trolling" has recently become the tech community's version of Salem's "She's a witch."

goldbrick 11y ago
Thinking through the deeply complex problem of how to display a static heading, image and three bullet points? This is master troll material. I LOLed greatly.
undo76 11y ago
I agree that maybe "trolling" is not the most accurate description. The author seems to be a competent coder, so I am assuming that he knows that such a solution for view components is flawed at least and that it would be a nightmare to go that way. My biggest concern with the original post is the next sentence, "If you want to use React, fine, I am not trying to convince anyone not to. I just want to show that components in a JavaScript application are quite simple to do and do not require any framework at all to do so." (The author has updated the post to clarify that "I am a proponent of using libraries and frameworks." I think that this was missing in the original post, I think that it would have been nice to add at the end of the post "Crazy, isn't it? Don't do it! Don't reinvent the wheel and tada-tada-tada...) Not sure about the intentions of the author, but I think that the original post makes a great case to support the use of these frameworks and not the opposite.