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Lately I think that the React framework is the biggest mistake. It's worse than a pile of jQuery spaghetti. It's probably single-handedly responsible for why R
by etaioinshrdlu 6y ago
Lately I think that the React framework is the biggest mistake. It's worse than a pile of jQuery spaghetti.
It's probably single-handedly responsible for why Reddit, Twitter, and myriad modern popular sites are slower and buggier than ever. They are written in an un-debuggable framework...
- ioseph 6y agoThinking of react as a framework is a mistake, it's the view layer only.
- tompazourek 6y agoFramework doesn't mean that it is across all layers. It can still be a framework for the view layer only. Libraries become frameworks when they start to dictate how you write and structure your code units, and also when they take the charge and decide which code should be called and when. React does all that, and thus is a framework, even if it's concerned with the view layer only.
- hackerbrother 6y agoThe mobile Twitter site completely broke for me the other week on the latest iOS and a 2020 iPhone. Scrolling just caused the site to glitch like crazy. Had to switch to the app!
- skinkestek 6y agoI happen to both hate balloning frontends and work with React so I can say that it is debuggable. It is not as smooth as Java, .Net or even Python IMO, but absolutely debuggable. I will however strongly recommend that one uses it with TypeScript; that way there will usually be a whole lot less to debug in the first place.