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Some years ago, 3 of us picked React for a startup. I consider it the single biggest mistake in my career, but we picked it not for the reason you mention. We d
by Casperin 8y ago
Some years ago, 3 of us picked React for a startup. I consider it the single biggest mistake in my career, but we picked it not for the reason you mention. We didn't think that far (I was perhaps a junior, but the others weren't). It was just a matter of picking the frontend framework that we liked the best (I think the options were between Backbone, Ember, AngularJS, React). In our minds we did pick the simple option.
Some may be aware, but certainly not everyone.
- wolco 8y agoIf you had to redo what would you pick? Why not jQuery?
- Casperin 8y agojQuery would have been fine, but honestly the website did not need that much js (if any). It should just have been a CRUD website.
- pault 8y ago> I consider it the single biggest mistake in my career I have to ask... what went so wrong? If you had a time machine, what would you tell your younger self?
- Casperin 8y agoOh I'm so sorry, I didn't see the replies. It was a mistake because we needed to move fast and figure out if we had something or not. A simple CRUD website (say Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, or even straight up Node/Express) would have been faster to build and iterate on. There was one section of it that would benefit from being able to work while offline, so that could perhaps have been built as a small SPA. But the rest, that was in hindsight a mistake.