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> Who are "they"? You sound like you think there's some giant conspiracy against JS frameworks. Yes. There is. The main developers and proselityzers were compl
by troupo 8mo ago
> Who are "they"? You sound like you think there's some giant conspiracy against JS frameworks.
Yes. There is. The main developers and proselityzers were completely insanely biased against web frameworks (especially React).
It wasn't even a conspiracy. All you had to do was to follow Alex Russel (the person who introduced the idea of web components in the first place) and see his interactions with framework authors and his views towards web frameworks.
The new people in the space driving the specs are hardly any better. E.g. their reactions to Ryan Carniato's rather mild criticism of Web Components is just filled with vile, bile, and hate.
They literally refuse to even admit they have a problem, or want to look at any other solutions than the ones they cook up.
> but a browser feature is kind of what it is. It can take years for features to make it into enough browsers to make them usable.
Strange, browsers push dozens of specs for web components without ever taking any time to see if the yet another half-baked "solution" is actually workable.
- wk_end 8mo agoSome links to examples of the sort of behaviour you're describing would be really helpful here (I say this as someone who is sympathetic - I work with on a web component/Lit codebase in my 9-5 and I'm not a fan, compared to the React workflow I had in a past life).
- troupo 8mo agoUnfortunately, as most of them left Twitter they also temoved all their accounts, so you can only see responses from framework authors like Rich Harris. But here's a very on-brand toot from Alex Russel: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/113222280712758802 https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/113222280712758802 This is the article he's reacting to: https://dev.to/ryansolid/web-components-are-not-the-future-48bh https://dev.to/ryansolid/web-components-are-not-the-future-4... --- Or here's Lou Verou (a TAG member) calling it hate (this is the mildest reaction, btw): https://x.com/LeaVerou/status/1840134654852247765 https://x.com/LeaVerou/status/1840134654852247765 and uncritically reposting a bullshit article calling it excellent https://x.com/LeaVerou/status/1839736908370587947 https://x.com/LeaVerou/status/1839736908370587947 (see reaction by Vue author: https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839833110164504691 https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839833110164504691 and https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839834941884121363 https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839834941884121363) Note that Lea Verou also says that people decided to fix some things around web components after her post in 2020: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/wcs-vs-frameworks/ https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/wcs-vs-frameworks/ Here's Rich Harris (author of Svelte) in 2019: https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728 https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728 Here's the 2022 Web Components Group report: https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents-cg/2022.html https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents-cg/2022.html. Notice similarities? Literally everything web framework authors have been saying for ever has been completely ignored in favor if the in-group/tribe. Literally nothing has changed. Nothing at all.