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Just a friendly reminder that React is approaching a decade in life. There are no other competing frameworks that look to be taking it’s place. Not saying it w
by dntrkv 4y ago
Just a friendly reminder that React is approaching a decade in life. There are no other competing frameworks that look to be taking it’s place.
Not saying it will never go away, just that, maybe the front-end world has finally, significantly slowed down in churn. Things could always be better (Svelte is nice) but overall, React does what I need and I rarely curse at its design.
- croes 4y agoHow was the situation of jQuery 2014? Seems to me pretty similar. So in 2030, react will still be widely used but largely obsolete.
- dntrkv 4y agoNot at all. From jQuery’s release to 2014 there were multiple phases of front-end frameworks. Backbone, Knockout, AngularJS, Ember. All of these had their time in the light during that phase. Most companies were already switched over to one of these frameworks. React was the new kid on the block at this time. You Don’t Need jQuery was out well before 2014. It’s also a bit difficult to compare jQuery since it’s a library that can linger in a codebase indefinitely. It’s not a framework. Also jQuery release date was 2006, so the equivalent year 9 would be 2015. By which point React migrations were in full swing. I wrote my first on the job React + Flux application in 2014 and then joined a new larger company in 2015 where we were making plans for a React migration.