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> I see React as today's PHP... I see it as today's jQuery.

• shadowgovt 4y ago
  Yeah, React doesn't have the massive security holes baked deeply into the design that PHP did.
• snshn 4y ago
  That's another good one. I feel like the crowd that used to code all that horror for Wordpress, Magento, Joomla, and other PHP CMSes, slowly moved to jQuery from backend coding, and then has transitioned to React full-time as things became more frontend-heavy. Still same freelancers from 3rd world countries and junior devs who just want to pay their bills and honestly don't even like computers that much. That's why there's so much terrible software today, not just websites. Back in the 90s and early 00s our industry was full of people who truly loved computers and wanted to make something good. Today you have to really be careful what tech stack you pick, that can make a difference between being surrounded by people who just blindly follow popular trends and real badasses who can make something great out of nothing.