React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning

Re:React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning by antris on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:42AM (#24981252)

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.

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Re:React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning by tshaddox on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:52AM (#24981350)

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.

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Re:React Fundamentals: What I’m Learning by antris on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:05PM (#24981492)

I'm not criticizing the team. I definitely couldn't have done a better job myself. Hindsight is 20/20, I'm just observing and trying to dissect what it's like to learn React from scratch in... 2020.

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