How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts

Re:How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building cus... by halostatue on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:46PM (#31857584)

React and JSX are, at best, mediocre. I consider it much more like C++: you’re much more likely to blow your foot off with React than with anything else. The codebases are excessively complex, completely magic, and impossible to debug in comparison to pretty much any other comparable framework, including modern Vanilla JS (with or without Web Components).

I agree with you about jQuery. It had its place. It’s painful to encounter now, especially since it can screw up any other framework that you want to put into a website.

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Re:How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building cus... by 0xy on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:29AM (#31873048)

Maybe you've worked on the wrong React codebase. It's come a long way from the Redux & class-based monolith structures from early React.

The components I work on and write are all narrow in scope, self-contained and completely testable with no crazy side effects + minimal global scope.

The easy path on React is small functional components.

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