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Without React we might not have had the JavaScript framework explosion, we'd all be programming in Angular JS. Maybe I'm exaggerating slightly, but I think we
by vintermann 4mo ago
Without React we might not have had the JavaScript framework explosion, we'd all be programming in Angular JS.
Maybe I'm exaggerating slightly, but I think we should judge frameworks compared to what other things existed at the time.
It's, by the way, another example of how the only good thing Facebook did was deny Google complete dominance.
- agrippanux 4mo agoReact was a godsend vs dealing with the Angular $digest loop
- calgoo 4mo agoWe would still have a framework of the week like we do today. There was a new framework weekly before React and there are frameworks of the week after React. React just gave us one more way of showing text on a screen.
- sd9 4mo ago> React just gave us one more way of showing text on a screen. Well, yes, but... its popularity is not completely accidental. It's good - even by today's standards, but certainly by the standards of the time.
- aitchnyu 4mo agoIn 2015 I was teaching that React was a lightweight library that simply did function state -> html, codebases were bug-free, snappy and easy to understand. And it was true compared to configuring jQuery listeners the unperformant way into a Rube Goldberg machine of cause and effect.
- fakedang 4mo agoWithout React, we might've just used Svelte.
- DerArzt 4mo agoNGL I like modern Angular more than React, but I never experienced v1 of AngularJS so I don't know how much of modern Angular is influenced by React. I like that it's a framework with opinions vs React which is a "Library".