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Anyone who says React has mired developers in complexity needs to go back ten years and use jQuery to build a single-page app and remind themselves how much les
by kccqzy 2y ago
Anyone who says React has mired developers in complexity needs to go back ten years and use jQuery to build a single-page app and remind themselves how much less complex React is. I know that because I rewrote a jQuery-based SPA in React back in 2015 and that experience was so revelatory that I will never forget it.
It is then that they will realize complexity comes from single-page apps. Pushing back against that complexity should result in not building SPAs, which is where Htmx comes in. There are still plenty of very successful web apps that are not SPAs.
If a product owner asks to build a SPA, a developer's job is to stop and ask why. Most likely what the product owner really has in mind can be accomplished without a SPA.
- hinkley 2y agoI’ve noticed there’s some mental block where managers and product owners behave as if adding new pages to a multipage app is too expensive so they just keep cramming more functionality into the existing half-dozen, dozen, or twenty pages. After three or more years it feels like you have a handful of single page apps, and jquery and many other tools struggle there.