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You don't need React for building websites. You absolutely need React (or something like it) for building web apps. The more interaction your client-side code h
by ng12 5y ago
You don't need React for building websites. You absolutely need React (or something like it) for building web apps. The more interaction your client-side code has the more you'll regret just using HTML+JS.
I really wish people would be more careful about their language here. Not everything running in the browser has the same level of complexity.
- iamdbtoo 5y agoYou don't need React for web apps, either. There are plenty of alternatives out there for that, too.
- senko 5y ago> Not everything running in the browser has the same level of complexity. This is literally the author's point.
- mattmcknight 5y agoI mean, the article did say: "The web app developer does need React or similar frameworks. The website developer doesn’t need React or similar frameworks."
- caeril 5y agojQuery/stock JS works just fine for literally every possible use case. The main benefit of React, if you're an engineering manager somewhere, is to bloat your staff, bloat your toolchain, bloat your builds, and as a consequence, bloat your budget. And when the enormous dependency tree download+parse+JIT, runtime scaffolding, all the ridiculous virtual dom diffing and other completely unnecessary garbage slows down the user experience to near-unusability, you can hire some "performance engineers" to consolidate your fiefdom even more. I will admit that if your status is proportional to your headcount, React is an absolute gamechanger for your career.
- stnmtn 5y agoThis is just flat untrue. There's so many usecases where you would have to be a masochist to choose only jQuery or stock JS.