Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?

Re:Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? by freetonik on Thursday May 31, 2018 @02:05AM (#17194281)

If I remember correctly, first versions of React were similar in that respect: you could just add a script tag to your page and you that’s it (save for the mount-point thing).

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Re:Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? by wiennat on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:26AM (#17195056)

You still can do the same with the current version.

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Re:Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? by _bxg1 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:23PM (#17200856)

Technically. But

1) Your "templates" look like this:

  React.createElement(
    "div",
    null,
    React.createElement(MyComponent, null),
    React.createElement(
      "ul",
      null,
      React.createElement(
        "li",
        null,
        "Thing 1"
      ),
      React.createElement(
        "li",
        null,
        "Thing 2"
      ),
      React.createElement(
        "li",
        null,
        "Thing 3"
      )
    )
  )

2) Since things like decent state management don't come in the box, you're almost forced to start including other modules, which pushes you back towards a build system.

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