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“the community mindset is usually just to find another dependency to integrate.” I fear it’s JS development mindset in general. I mean, you start a new project

“the community mindset is usually just to find another dependency to integrate.” I fear it’s JS development mindset in general. I mean, you start a new project in RN, you get 1200 NPM dependencies. You start work, and you get thousands of dependencies. All that piles up to a huge amount of code that has to be parsed on start up (no ahead of time compilation or JIT).

cel1ne 9y ago
That is one of my pains with react-native and the JS-community. Their tooling sucks, because they use javascript for everything. Having a NullPointerException/"undefined" in my code means I have to go hunt the bug for a couple of minutes. Having it in my buildtool means I my productivity drops to zero for an hour. RN also keeps using deprecated and old version of android-buildtools. Fun fact: "NullPointerException" gives 2.47 million results on google. "cannot read property of undefined" gives 3.71 million results. (Background: I'm a Java, Kotlin and JavaScript developer, shipped an app using react-native for the Views only, but Kotlin for the business-logic. I also picked some fights with the RN-maintainers on github issues.)