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Building web apps with React is just much faster than doing it without, even when using Angular complex apps will always be complex. You can’t have an easy sol
by coolThingsFirst 3y ago
Building web apps with React is just much faster than doing it without, even when using Angular complex apps will always be complex.
You can’t have an easy solution when you have tons of interaction and state.
- ricardobeat 3y agoWhat else have you personally had experience with? Angular would not be in my list of better alternatives. My comparison is always with Svelte / Vue, and also what we had in previous eras (Backbone, Knockout, etc). HTMx is picking up steam too. We used to push out interactive UI in days/weeks, and mind you, in the past websites did not look all the same. There were no component libraries to start from. Today it seems most React projects are planned in months/quarters despite being built atop a mountain of third-party code, all meant to 'speed things up'. What we do today is not faster at all, too much time is wasted on tooling and issues that arise from React's architecture (hooks, ssr, data loading, error handling, async issues, black-box performance issues, dependency hell).
- shutupnerd0000 3y agoSSR issues and dependency hell are not unique to React.
- rstat1 3y agoI started a new React project back in December after being annoyed with Angular, just to see whether it would be any less annoying and/or quicker. It's been neither of those things and I'm actually beginning to regret making that choice.
- coolThingsFirst 3y agoThe learning curve is steep for React, you’ll struggle without solid JS skills
- ricardobeat 3y agoYou'll also struggle with solid JS skills - even the best FE devs I know, working for top tech companies, are able to produce React spaghetti.
- flir 3y ago> You can’t have an easy solution when you have tons of interaction and state. Desktop software was never this fragile.
- coolThingsFirst 3y agoFragile in what way, please specify