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I think react has a steep initial learning curve but once you grasp the concepts it's not complicated. It is more verbose than vue though and requires more setu

I think react has a steep initial learning curve but once you grasp the concepts it's not complicated. It is more verbose than vue though and requires more setup and boilerplate to get started.

hesarenu 10y ago
React is very simple. You need to understand only its basic life cycle. Rest is just JavaScript.
- askmike 10y ago
  I disagree as soon as you write more than a single nested child/parent component, that requires a different way of thinking (should I use state or props?). And that you can't "just uses react". You kind of have to use redux (or similar) as well as a bunch of other stuff.
  - mambodog 10y ago
    People keep saying you 'have to use redux' but I think that's hugely misleading to a large section of potential React users who don't need the highly complex state management that redux facilitates, and could get by just fine with setState+props. I'd hope that people who are being exposed to this idea at least also get the chance to read 'You Might Not Need Redux': https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be46360cf367 https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
    - cageface 10y ago
      Amen to that. Seems like everybody is cargo culting Redux but really you can get pretty far with just React plus some wrapper components to hold state.
  - hesarenu 10y ago
    You don't need to use redux. But it's very useful to manage state. I went from using simple components to flux to redux all in same project. For me State management is a very part of client ui.
tracker1 10y ago
I don't think it's more complicated so much as different from what people are used to. Once you think of JSX as functional expressions, it becomes easier... and there are far fewer gotchas at play, imho. I think react combined with a unidirectional state management has a relatively difficult initial learning curve, but overall, I find it's not as steep as say Angular is.

I think react has a steep initial learning curve but once you grasp the concepts it's not complicated. It is more verbose than vue though and requires more setup and boilerplate to get started.

hesarenu 10y ago

React is very simple. You need to understand only its basic life cycle. Rest is just JavaScript.

askmike 10y ago
I disagree as soon as you write more than a single nested child/parent component, that requires a different way of thinking (should I use state or props?). And that you can't "just uses react". You kind of have to use redux (or similar) as well as a bunch of other stuff.
- mambodog 10y ago
  People keep saying you 'have to use redux' but I think that's hugely misleading to a large section of potential React users who don't need the highly complex state management that redux facilitates, and could get by just fine with setState+props. I'd hope that people who are being exposed to this idea at least also get the chance to read 'You Might Not Need Redux': https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be46360cf367 https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...
  - cageface 10y ago
    Amen to that. Seems like everybody is cargo culting Redux but really you can get pretty far with just React plus some wrapper components to hold state.
- hesarenu 10y ago
  You don't need to use redux. But it's very useful to manage state. I went from using simple components to flux to redux all in same project. For me State management is a very part of client ui.

tracker1 10y ago

I don't think it's more complicated so much as different from what people are used to. Once you think of JSX as functional expressions, it becomes easier... and there are far fewer gotchas at play, imho. I think react combined with a unidirectional state management has a relatively difficult initial learning curve, but overall, I find it's not as steep as say Angular is.