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I don’t understand how you can claim that react is pure overhead. Sure it does have overhead, but it’s also a really useful abstraction. How composable abstract
by klysm 4y ago
I don’t understand how you can claim that react is pure overhead. Sure it does have overhead, but it’s also a really useful abstraction. How composable abstraction for UI components that enables local reasoning not functionality.
jQuery is just pure overhead with no real functionality compared to vanilla js.
- smarkov 4y agoReact is vastly overused. You don't need every single element in your page to be a separate component when 95% of your site is pure text and you have an occasional form or a button here and there. If you're making an actual application (think Discord/Spotify) then yes, it becomes a necessary abstraction. Your personal website or news website (or many others) using React is a waste of my bandwidth and CPU cycles.
- dbud 4y agoDon’t forget about server side rendering. If you only need to serve static, you don’t really need any Jack, anyway.
- klysm 4y agoAgreed it doesn’t make sense for a lot of things that could just be static sites. But you also wouldn’t need jQuery on such sites so I’m not sure why that matters.
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