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Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by btheshoe on Monday November 21, 2022 @03:56PM (#33697807)
> My spicy take is that React is not an abstraction above the DOM, it's an abstraction parallel to it.

Why do you think this? Would be interested to hear the reasoning behind the take.

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Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? by LAC-Tech on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:46PM (#33698455)
Well, as reactionaries love to tell us, it's a library and not a framework.

Great, we already have a library for that - it's called the DOM.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for reactive programming, and even templated views. But reacts approach of hiding everything under the rug rather than having a clear "here's where the state changes" and "Here's we we render" divide always struck me as the worst of both worlds.

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