Re:What React Gets Wrong
by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:20PM
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> img tag is wonky considering the various screen sizes and bandwidth variability today.
The srcset attribute is well-established.
And please elaborate on the issues you’ve experienced with HTML5 video. Every platform supports AVC1 now, even Firefox.
> The srcset attribute is well-established.
on new browsers
> Every [new] platform supports AVC1 now, even Firefox.
React/Angular/Vue/etc. is the janky crap. The client side is MINE, stop wasting MY resources for your ease of development.
I say this as a developer that has to deal with "React apps" at work. As I user I can't stand the "modern web" where megabytes of Javascript are wasted turning a page load into a spinner that doesn't work half the time.
React and its ecosystems of libraries turn the browser in to something you can actually get stuff done with. Sure, it's a monster. But your codebase would be as well if you tried to fix all the janky crap in the modern web.
I don't want to program all my logic somewhere else. Front ends run on the client computer, I can keep one client's heavy computations separate from another client and it doesn't cost me anything. Fat front ends are the defence against expensive cloud providers or unstable self-hosted services.