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You (and most commenters on this branch) forget the most important thing: there are bazillions of libraries that work with react so I don't have to produce all
by edem 5y ago
You (and most commenters on this branch) forget the most important thing: there are bazillions of libraries that work with react so I don't have to produce all that untested vanilla code. I only have to wire them together in a way I see fit and then I can jump on the next project. Also: good luck finding a person who would forego using and maintaining their easy-to-market React skills.
- acdha 5y agoNone of which is specific to React, as decades of history shows. One reason that history is worth paying attention to is that it confirms that you’ll be spending a lot of time managing dependencies, testing breaking upgrades, and working with upstream maintainers to fix problems and add features. It’s still a net win but there’s a real cost which is easy to ignore until you count the number of FTE weeks which went into keeping a project building and secure.