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> protip: you probably aren't Citation needed. HN has this really strange assumption that everyone who talks about web technology is working on Wordpress sites

• lloyd-christmas 10y ago
  It's a 3.5 year old framework. Unless your career is "technical cofounder" with 6 month intervals, you probably don't get to pick your stack. People that have up and chosen React for their professional platform and have their company succeed aren't going to be all that common[0]. Within those that have, people who have used it for long enough (and large enough) to burn their hand on the stove are few and far between. Remember when Angular was the golden child and could do no wrong? It's 6 years old now, and took a while before the fandom died down and you could actually find the practical criticism. I think the assumption that everyone does a 'Todo' is definitely a poor one, but I feel like 90% of the React articles are by people that have used it for 6 months at most, company blogs included. Glancing at the angular builtwith stats[1], they had 600/10k within 4 years. 3.5 years into React and it hasn't broken 100. While these numbers don't directly translate into "complex UI", they are still indicative of long term usage, going back to my hand-on-stove comment. [0] https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/React https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/React [1] https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/Angular-JS https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/Angular-JS
• carsongross 10y ago
  I see exactly the opposite: folks building TodoMVC++ (e.g. the Stripe web UI) using J2EE-tier complexity, when all they really want is to avoid FOUCs.