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I find it amazing how many different software development frameworks are out there. After all these years I still haven't bothered to look up what React is, an
by jabbernotty 7y ago
I find it amazing how many different software development frameworks are out there.
After all these years I still haven't bothered to look up what React is, and I probably will never need to.
I will probably never get to maintain a codebase that uses it.
So if being 'up-to-date' isn't something I will go for, how do I measure myself as a developer? I think I will go for something like 'having made a lot more regular people happy than I have frustrated'.
- revskill 7y agoYou should try and use React first before deciding if it's actually helpful for you later. In case of React, to me, i no longer bother with syncing state with html, something like `node.innerHTML = `${my_state}` It's actually beneficial to me.
- skohan 7y agoYeah I spent some time with raw javascript, jQuery and angular, but React is the first web framework which actually feels like a decent solution to the problem of how to build interactive web applications, rather than just being another hack.
- pferde 7y agoThat sounds like something horrible that one never should have needed to bother with in the first place. Like saying that with this new car, I no longer bother checking whether the wheels aren't about to fall off. :)
- qwerty1234599 7y agoProbably around half of frontend developer jobs I see nowadays are for projects using react; and that number keeps going up. If you do any web development at all, chances are you will have to work in a React codebase during the next decade
- pjmlp 7y agoNot when one works at an agency that happens to bet on other stacks.
- jabbernotty 7y agoI don't understand why this is being downvoted. There is no negativity in the message.