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This is a weird take, since most end users have no idea what React is. They just access websites (always have, will continue to do so). I think it is an intere
by xavdid 4y ago
This is a weird take, since most end users have no idea what React is. They just access websites (always have, will continue to do so).
I think it is an interesting exercise to think about the worst thing to happen to web development in the past 20 years, but I don't think I have an answer for that right now.
- PaulHoule 4y agoGenerally I don’t complain about React apps I use, but I know how the sausage is made (I make them) and my guess is users are getting worse apps than they could be getting because of all the half-baked hacks that go into React apps. It is not just React but the tower of complexity that gets pulled in. In theory you could find a nice widget set and have components like a desktop app framework like WPF or Java FX but often people wind up with several different component sets, each of which has an idiosyncratic approach to CSS or something just plain psychotic like pre-grid layout bootstrap. On my own account I make apps that are not JavaScript heavy unless I want to do something exotic like use three.js. React has the strong advantage that it is easy to make video game like animations that work over the application globally, but I think it is a strong minus for most of what management really values…. That is, having an application that works, having it developed quickly, being able to update it quickly.
- ninethirty 4y agoJava applets maybe?
- yamtaddle 4y ago> I think it is an interesting exercise to think about the worst thing to happen to web development in the past 20 years, but I don't think I have an answer for that right now. Definitely XMLHttpRequest becoming available to JavaScript in 2006.