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On the react bandwagon for almost 5 years now and haven’t regretted it a single day. Started using it because it allowed me to build d3-type data visualisations
by erwinh 6y ago
On the react bandwagon for almost 5 years now and haven’t regretted it a single day. Started using it because it allowed me to build d3-type data visualisations but with way more flexibility in terms of hierarchy and grouping of DOM elements in what for me felt like a very intuitive format of components and JSX. So I would say thrust your own judgement when considering which tools! Not all trends are pure hype, there might be something real behind it :)
- yen223 6y agoIn my opinion, React is one of the few libraries out there where the gains from using it is much larger than the effort needed to learn it. It has a relatively small API, more so now that you can get a lot done with just function components. In return, once you grok the whole "components as a function of state" concept, designing data models and designing app components becomes very simple. I really like react, and I'm glad to see other environments adopting a React-like approach to UI development (Apple's SwiftUI and Android's Jetpack Compose, to name two)