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It feels like the react team has decoupled from the best interests of the community. Much of the appeal of react was in building the SPA. There are so many web
by Zenzero 2y ago
It feels like the react team has decoupled from the best interests of the community. Much of the appeal of react was in building the SPA. There are so many web apps that are best built in react on the frontend. Instead we now get this Vercel-driven RSC use-client mess which is of little benefit to the SPA crowd.
The fact that the suspense change made it this far shows how the react team has lost focus. Now more than ever, the ecosystem is really primed for a competing framework to dethrone react. I say this as someone that has invested a lot into using react.
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- pkilgore 2y agoPreact is a delight an contains non of this nonsense (yet).
- lioeters 2y agoI love Preact, in many ways it's superior to React. But I wonder if their positioning might be weighing them down, that they will always be catching up to stay compatible with React, to implement the same/similar interface. I know "preact/compat" is optional and separate, but there's an expectation that they will keep up with React's new features - even if it doesn't fit well with the design and goals of Preact. Preact is how I wish React would have evolved: stay small, keep a simple interface, focused on being a view library instead of a sprawling framework.
- hoten 2y agoThis seems unfair given how the team reverted the change. You can argue they messed up and maybe aren't as in tune to some segment of their user base as they should be, but not that they aren't interested in making the best software they can for everyone.
- meiraleal 2y agoThat's not unfair, the move was clearly to benefit a PaaS provider in detriment of the majority of React users. They are clearly not taking most users need in consideration and they should be judged for that.
- morgannewman 2y ago[dead]
- hoten 2y agoI guess I'll repeat, but they reverted the change, so...
- meiraleal 2y agoBy the playbook, they "reverted" until the public opinion forgets about it.
- 5Qn8mNbc2FNCiVV 2y agoIf you've worked with React and especially built e-commerce stores with it you'd realize what they are aiming for mimics a lot of the work that went into Relay but for the larger community. This is a continuation of that and not driven by trying to pump Vercel bills. Kind of discredits all your opinions on that topic
- mdhb 2y agoI sometimes wonder how many people realise that the CTO at Vercel’s previous main claim to fame was HN’s favorite boogie man: AMP from Google.