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I thought the title was a reference to what every developer I know said about React after a few months of working on React when it first became popular: "React
by hnbad 4y ago
I thought the title was a reference to what every developer I know said about React after a few months of working on React when it first became popular:
"React is amazing but it won't live forever. It's hard to imagine what the framework that takes its throne will look like but it will probably look nothing like what we've seen before. Either way, React can't be the end. There will be a next framework."
So far that hasn't manifested. Vue arguably took some learnings from React but it feels more like a step back than a paradigm shift in some ways (not that that makes it bad, mind you). Remember that React took its throne from Angular and remember how Angular looked at the time. That's the kind of change we're looking for.
Most React developers I know know that React will go away eventually and that they'll switch to something else at that point. Mind you, they all didn't start out as React developers, so this isn't their first rodeo. But that new "genre defining" framework (as the article puts it) just doesn't exist yet, or if it does, it hasn't gained any real traction.