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This feels so foreign to me. Just...use React? JSX syntax isn't hard :< Like if it was Haskell or something I would be understanding, but this just sounds like

This feels so foreign to me. Just...use React? JSX syntax isn't hard :< Like if it was Haskell or something I would be understanding, but this just sounds like lazy.

rhaksw 7y ago
React is more than JSX. I don't think the author is lazy. Some relevant points from the blog, > I’ve done a CodeAcademy class, completed Wes Bos‘s React for Beginners course, bought books, listened to podcasts, and read tutorials. Hell, I even paid someone to build a side-project app I designed in React so I could learn how it works > I’ve written elsewhere how I’ve never had a computer science course in my life, and I call myself a frontend designer, > Tooling and build step stuff are tough to get my head around
GhostVII 7y ago
I don't think it is the syntax that is difficult, it is the overall layout and design of a React app, and the tools that come along with it. When you start a website with regular HTML/CSS/JavaScript, you just open up index.html and start putting in HTML tags, and maybe add a .css or .js file. When you start a React app, you (usually) run create-react-app, which pulls in a million dependencies and tools you use to develop your app. Now in the long run, for a large app, those tools are useful since they make it easier to actually host your website somewhere, but the learning curve is far steeper than just opening up index.html in your web browser. Also it is hard to determine what the best way to solve a problem in React is when there are so many different versions and additional packages people are using (ex. Redux).
- bromuro 7y ago
  Please don’t stop creating your website n the way you need it. It worked 15 years ago and it still does. Then, start have your codebase grow and grow, and you will find yourself to rebuild it again and again. Good luck
- davidjnelson 7y ago
  Building a complex user interface requires an incredible amount of experience in software architecture to do well.

This feels so foreign to me. Just...use React? JSX syntax isn't hard :< Like if it was Haskell or something I would be understanding, but this just sounds like lazy.

rhaksw 7y ago

React is more than JSX. I don't think the author is lazy. Some relevant points from the blog, > I’ve done a CodeAcademy class, completed Wes Bos‘s React for Beginners course, bought books, listened to podcasts, and read tutorials. Hell, I even paid someone to build a side-project app I designed in React so I could learn how it works > I’ve written elsewhere how I’ve never had a computer science course in my life, and I call myself a frontend designer, > Tooling and build step stuff are tough to get my head around

GhostVII 7y ago

I don't think it is the syntax that is difficult, it is the overall layout and design of a React app, and the tools that come along with it. When you start a website with regular HTML/CSS/JavaScript, you just open up index.html and start putting in HTML tags, and maybe add a .css or .js file. When you start a React app, you (usually) run create-react-app, which pulls in a million dependencies and tools you use to develop your app. Now in the long run, for a large app, those tools are useful since they make it easier to actually host your website somewhere, but the learning curve is far steeper than just opening up index.html in your web browser. Also it is hard to determine what the best way to solve a problem in React is when there are so many different versions and additional packages people are using (ex. Redux).

bromuro 7y ago
Please don’t stop creating your website n the way you need it. It worked 15 years ago and it still does. Then, start have your codebase grow and grow, and you will find yourself to rebuild it again and again. Good luck
davidjnelson 7y ago
Building a complex user interface requires an incredible amount of experience in software architecture to do well.