> has never rung true with me. Yeah, me neither. I'm seeing first-hand a "large" (but probably not Coinbase-large) webapp dying by 10 thousand cuts. The "you

> has never rung true with me. Yeah, me neither. I'm seeing first-hand a "large" (but probably not Coinbase-large) webapp dying by 10 thousand cuts. The "you shouldn't care if it rerenders" components are, together, affecting performance. Going back and memoizing everything would be a nightmare and not a viable business solution. Rewrite everything from scratch is also not viable. So we have to live with a sluggish app. At the same time, memoizing everything does make your code unreadable. Honestly, it's a mess. I only accept working with this kind of stuff because I'm very well paid for it. On my personal projects I stay far away from the Javascript ecosystem, and it's a bless. Working with Elm or Clojurescript is a world of difference. Clojurescript's reframe, by the way, uses React (via Reagent) and something somewhat similar to Redux, without having any of the pitfalls of modern JS/React. I can write a large application and ensure that there are no unnecessary rerenders, without sacrificing readability and mental bandwidth by having to memorize everything. The conclusion I have, which is personal (YMMV) and based on my own experience, is that modern JS development is fundamentally flawed. Apologies for the rant.