Re:Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
by megous on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:44AM
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> There's a big fear that projects that become unmaintained suddenly stop working; this isn't correct.
While true, it only applies if you don't want to upgrade your lower level dependencies, ever. And given that this is a React based framework, so it's not based directly on the web platform, if it's not maintained, you'll have to port the framework yourself.
Coversely, if it is maintained, you may be forced to keep up and upgrade whatever this is based on, or backport fixes if the project moves on to a newer incompatible version of the lower level dependency.
> Besides, all webapps are rebuilt in a 3-5 year cycle anyway so it really doesn't matter.
Eh? :D I still iterate on 13 or 9 year old codebases for my clients without re-building anything.
While true, it only applies if you don't want to upgrade your lower level dependencies, ever. And given that this is a React based framework, so it's not based directly on the web platform, if it's not maintained, you'll have to port the framework yourself.
Coversely, if it is maintained, you may be forced to keep up and upgrade whatever this is based on, or backport fixes if the project moves on to a newer incompatible version of the lower level dependency.
> Besides, all webapps are rebuilt in a 3-5 year cycle anyway so it really doesn't matter.
Eh? :D I still iterate on 13 or 9 year old codebases for my clients without re-building anything.