Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars

Re:Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars by enlyth on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:52AM (#27313130)

I find it a bit sad that the most upvoted reaction to someone's cool little project they wanted to share is the classic HN misguided and overused response of 'React BAD'

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Re:Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars by Tade0 on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:35AM (#27313343)

There's a reason for that. The web is roughly 90% static pages with JS sprinkled on top(usually jQuery), and 10% SPAs made in various frameworks.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library

React is a small part of the web(in terms of the number of people using it commercially) and thus a library written in React isn't terribly useful for most of the market.

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Re:Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars by Kaze404 on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:18AM (#27314989)

> React is a small part of the web(in terms of the number of people using it commercially) and thus a library written in React isn't terribly useful for most of the market.

And why does that matter? The OP is someone's toy project, not an attempt at starting a SaaS company.

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Re:Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars by inbx0 on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:46AM (#27313416)

And what percetange of those "static pages with JS sprinkled on top" have a need for automatically generated custom avatars?

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Re:Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars by Tade0 on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:55AM (#27313489)

Quite a few actually! After all they include static pages with comment sections, forums, image boards etc. - all places where you would want to have user profiles and naturally avatars.

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Re:Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars by IshKebab on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:28PM (#27317381)

I don't think anyone's saying React is bad, they're saying it's weird that this library depends on it.

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