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The cool thing about react is that it doesn't try to do everything. Compared to Angular react is minimalist. So that's why react is used so much: because it doe

by zxcvcxz 10y ago

The cool thing about react is that it doesn't try to do everything. Compared to Angular react is minimalist. So that's why react is used so much: because it doesn't try to do everything, it's basically just javascript and doesn't require you to re-learn web dev, and if you want to extend it you can easily do that. React can be made to fit most needs. If all you're doing is serving a static web page then any framework is over kill, but then again, if all you're doing is serving static web pages you probably aren't a paid professional web developer. To be a web dev professionally you need to know some framework, and react is really the best one. Angular tries to do too much but still makes you implement everything "the angular way" and meteor isn't a good framework for companies that want mix and match different technologies on their stack. Then there are other alternatives that are non-javascript based, but in the end you still end up having to use javascript somewhere most of the time. Why take all the nastiness from the web-dev world and add even more convolution to it? React isn't perfect but it's the best we have. And this is coming from someone who hates facebook and was once an angular dev.

marknutter 10y ago
But React does actually try to do everything. React components can only compose other React components, and so you have React components all the way down. And if passing data all the way down that tree gets tedious you need to start looking into some sort of Flux/Redux type of data handling solution. Pretty soon you're in-lining your CSS because half the tutorials and 3rd party React components are doing that and nothing you've written plays well with any of your existing code, not to mention the vast sea of code written using other libraries. React is a trap. It works best when you use it everywhere, as Facebook does, but it's not a friendly and open framework when it comes to compatibility with others, especially with coming standards like Web Components.

by zxcvcxz 10y ago

marknutter 10y ago

But React does actually try to do everything. React components can only compose other React components, and so you have React components all the way down. And if passing data all the way down that tree gets tedious you need to start looking into some sort of Flux/Redux type of data handling solution. Pretty soon you're in-lining your CSS because half the tutorials and 3rd party React components are doing that and nothing you've written plays well with any of your existing code, not to mention the vast sea of code written using other libraries. React is a trap. It works best when you use it everywhere, as Facebook does, but it's not a friendly and open framework when it comes to compatibility with others, especially with coming standards like Web Components.