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For individuals making small sites, it's absolutely overkill. For my job, with hundreds of developers working on a giant SPA blob with constant feature creep,
by some-guy 7y ago
For individuals making small sites, it's absolutely overkill.
For my job, with hundreds of developers working on a giant SPA blob with constant feature creep, frameworks like React are a necessary evil to maintain the insanity.
- WilliamEdward 7y agoAt what point does it stop being a small site and become a giant app? Genuinely curious cus im wondering if i should make the switch.
- zys5945 7y agoI think it's about the number of developers involved. If you have a small team of 3-5 people who understands the architecture as a whole and can keep up with most PRs then I don't think a UI framework is necessary. However, if you have many teams working on the same project and/or cannot keep up with every single PR merged then I think using a UI framework is a must. It forces you to stick to strict rules. Although you will start writing boilerplate code, it makes the entire application much more modular, and easier to reason about.
- jf22 7y agoWith 3-5 people you end up building your own UI framework.
- switch007 7y agoReact is just a library though. Surely there is much more to your story than React alone?
- frenchyatwork 7y agoSure, React is just a library, but I don't think I've ever seen it used as just a library.