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This is grossly underestimating the complexity of IG, FB and the likes. Everyone likes to tell other people how they should build their stuff, that's the easy
by enlyth 7y ago
This is grossly underestimating the complexity of IG, FB and the likes.
Everyone likes to tell other people how they should build their stuff, that's the easy part.
Do you think React would have been created if "HTML and a little Javascript for interactivity" was enough for Facebook to deliver the UX they wanted to? No, there was a business need, and what existed simply wasn't good enough, maintainable enough or easy enough to reason about to work.
- olavgg 7y agoNo, its not for the UX, but for tracking you in every way as precise as possible. Second, most of you is not Facebook or Google either and have no need for additional complexity. Third, a strategy some of the big companies do to slow down startups that may compete with them is to create an illusion of how fantastic it is to develop applications with this new tool. So instead of focusing on actual business value, a lot of people spend time on premature optimizations and think API's that are breaking daily is perfectly fine as their favorite tool is only getting better.
- dymk 7y ago> No, its not for the UX, but for tracking you in every way as precise as possible. Source? I realize this is HN and FUD about Google/Facebook is just accepted as truth, but this is a little too FUD-y for me.
- SahAssar 7y agoReact for the most part is about producing HTML (the DOM/VDOM part) and a "little JS" (eventhandlers/interaction/updates). Any single react element is pretty easily expressed in simple JS, the thing that react and other frameworks do is to tie a few hundred/thousand of them together, which is what is hard. The resulting HTML that it outputs should still be readable and semantic though.