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Good article. not necessarily right about everything. I agree with the Angular vs React part. I have dealt with several codebases of both. I do not consider my

by aljgz 5y ago

Good article. not necessarily right about everything. I agree with the Angular vs React part. I have dealt with several codebases of both. I do not consider myself a frontend dev, but do understand when a codebase is thriving and when it's struggling. Most react projects that don't have a frontend guru on board are seriously troubled. Most frontend developers are not competent enough to make the right decision. And by no means this is an insult to them: staying on top of the current trends in frontend development ecosystem demands a smart lifelong learner geek. Most of the reasons the normal developers have for choosing react over Angular does not apply to them and their projects. The main exception is the absolute minimum size, and none of the projects I'm talking about ended up with a small enough download size for this difference to matter. So in short, react can give you some benefit in certain situations, but will harm productivity in most realistic ones (my anecdote, of course).

dimgl 5y ago
> I do not consider myself a frontend dev > Most react projects that don't have a frontend guru on board are seriously troubled. You know, I think the React hype has truly ended when the recurring theme I keep seeing on Hacker News is that React is bad. I'm thinking maybe it hit critical mass and this is the reason I keep seeing statements like this. > staying on top of the current trends in frontend development ecosystem demands a smart lifelong learner geek. Am I the only one who thinks frontend development is, like, actually not that hard whatsoever?
- cehrlich 5y ago
  I think it’s self evident that React has won for the time being, so there’s no point in evangelising it anymore. But let me just say: I love Next.js. More opinionated than React, but almost no learning curve and solves probably 80% of the things that bug me about React.
  - dimgl 5y ago
    I agree too! I also love Remix! These use React under the hood.
    - cehrlich 5y ago
      Remix looks cool, look forward to hopefully trying it on a small personal project sometime this year. The main issue with React is the things it doesn't give you, and these frameworks are beginning to solve that quite well.

by aljgz 5y ago

dimgl 5y ago

> I do not consider myself a frontend dev > Most react projects that don't have a frontend guru on board are seriously troubled. You know, I think the React hype has truly ended when the recurring theme I keep seeing on Hacker News is that React is bad. I'm thinking maybe it hit critical mass and this is the reason I keep seeing statements like this. > staying on top of the current trends in frontend development ecosystem demands a smart lifelong learner geek. Am I the only one who thinks frontend development is, like, actually not that hard whatsoever?

cehrlich 5y ago
I think it’s self evident that React has won for the time being, so there’s no point in evangelising it anymore. But let me just say: I love Next.js. More opinionated than React, but almost no learning curve and solves probably 80% of the things that bug me about React.
- dimgl 5y ago
  I agree too! I also love Remix! These use React under the hood.
  - cehrlich 5y ago
    Remix looks cool, look forward to hopefully trying it on a small personal project sometime this year. The main issue with React is the things it doesn't give you, and these frameworks are beginning to solve that quite well.