Re:How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
by ricardobeat on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:58AM
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> when we hire somebody familiar with React, they can hit the ground running and start contributing immediately
This is one of the selling points, but never really realizable in a large scale project. I've seen people become productive with an in-house template system, vanilla javascript + custom libraries even faster than on a "standard" React project.
As they emphasize in their own docs, React is not a framework. The amount of moving pieces you need around it for a working project ends up being more complex than your cut-to-size custom framework. There are many other positives to adopting standard tools, but this one is a red herring.
This is one of the selling points, but never really realizable in a large scale project. I've seen people become productive with an in-house template system, vanilla javascript + custom libraries even faster than on a "standard" React project.
As they emphasize in their own docs, React is not a framework. The amount of moving pieces you need around it for a working project ends up being more complex than your cut-to-size custom framework. There are many other positives to adopting standard tools, but this one is a red herring.