Re:Angular 2 versus React
by bryanlarsen on Monday January 04, 2016 @03:57PM
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One thing I like about both Polymer & React is that they encourage you to treat your apps as a composition of components, as opposed to each page being a wall of HTML with a few variables substituted in.
That being said, React really makes it easy for those components to be tiny little things that do only one thing, that compose nicely, and that are easy to understand. There's a heuristic in programming that if a function is more than a page in length, it's probably too complicated. The same heuristic applies to React: if your component (JS, JSX & CSS together) is more than a page, it's probably too big.
Just the act of splitting apart the JS, JSX & CSS encourages the components to become much larger.
That being said, React really makes it easy for those components to be tiny little things that do only one thing, that compose nicely, and that are easy to understand. There's a heuristic in programming that if a function is more than a page in length, it's probably too complicated. The same heuristic applies to React: if your component (JS, JSX & CSS together) is more than a page, it's probably too big.
Just the act of splitting apart the JS, JSX & CSS encourages the components to become much larger.