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The negativity oozing out of this article undermines the main points (of which there’s some good ones). Belittling and admonishing an entire cohort of your peer
by ZvG_Bonjwa 1y ago
The negativity oozing out of this article undermines the main points (of which there’s some good ones). Belittling and admonishing an entire cohort of your peers because they like a tech you don’t is not helpful.
I think React has some fundamental API issues (Solid/Svelte are better) and there’s way too many petabytes of JS out there for sure. But it pioneered some great concepts, and its ecosystem is robust.
Building complex interactive web apps without a framework is still a disaster in 2025. React and friends are not going anywhere until that changes.
- 0x6c6f6c 1y agoIt definitely would be interesting to have proposed alternatives and even examples included as part of this piece.