Hydrogen: React-based framework for building custom storefronts

Re:Hydrogen: React-based framework for building custom store... by sergiomattei on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @07:43AM (#29160959)

> Not good because it means people who start with React—likely a large number of devs—are not going to understand how the web works (and will potentially create destructive messes themselves later).

You could say that about any abstraction. Frameworks, cars, etc. It couldn't be furthest from the truth.

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Re:Hydrogen: React-based framework for building custom store... by rglover on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:14AM (#29162774)

You can design abstractions in a way that doesn't remove the fundamental concept from the workflow. So, no, sorry.

I used to buy this line of thinking but having done the work myself, it's clear there's a serious lack of thinking before doing. Having worked with React since the early days (~2015) and watching its evolution, these ideas stick sheerly out of popularity, not coherence or clarity (read: the changes over the years have been degenerative, not additive—the original React was clear).

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