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IMO it's because the web has a huge diversity of behaviors (in a way that, say, native apps do not) but a monoculture on the development side. React makes sens
by afavour 9mo ago
IMO it's because the web has a huge diversity of behaviors (in a way that, say, native apps do not) but a monoculture on the development side.
React makes sense if you're making Gmail. It doesn't really make sense if you're making a mostly static blog. But because there are more job opportunities in the former (when you consider the wealth of internal web apps out there in the world) all the training courses folks take emphasize React and an app-centric way of thinking about the web.
And perhaps most importantly, it's good enough. It works. Users get by with it. And the developer experience is better than it was in the days of Backbone etc. So few push for change.
- timeon 9mo ago> Users get by with it. They would not if they had choice.
- afavour 9mo agoAnd they don't. Web development practices are largely driven by what developers want, not what users want. Which is why Google started doing things like measuring Core Web Vitals and having it affect SEO rankings, to force developers to care.
- Zanfa 9mo ago> React makes sense if you're making Gmail. Except the old Gmail used to be so much faster…
- shimman 9mo agoAlso the old Gmail never used react...
- zcw100 9mo agoMany technical directions in the past 15 years have been a thinly veiled attempt to actually get paid for doing work.