Re:React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning
by antris on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:42AM
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Yes I agree, React broke that mould and web apps are better for it.
But it was controversial. The React team even got ridiculed early on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cQ3mrcKaY#t=35s
And the person who wrote that tweet wasn't alone. It's perhaps easy to forget how much opposition there was to React. Facebook was quite a bit further than many in the industry, and Pete Hunt from Facebook admits that "we weren't communicating what we were doing".
It was a bit much to swallow for many at first, but in the end, the VDOM was such a powerful idea that React was destined to take off sooner or later.
Re:React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning
by tshaddox on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:52AM
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Getting ridiculed early on and then quickly becoming by far the most prominent and popular library in your category doesn’t sound so bad. It’s not something I would criticize React for.
Yeah, but we were all still doing it anyways. Maybe not for our web pages, but definitely for our apps. I don’t think that part of react has ever been very controversial to people who were already building large webapps to begin with.