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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by H1Supreme on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:59PM (#34224255)
> Ok, reasonable, but other frontend Ui toolkits (eg. Vue, Svelte before Sveltekit, etc.) seem to be able to handle this without going "enterprise" levels of complication.

I've used Vue (2.0) and React extensively. I find them to be pretty equal in terms of complexity on reasonably large projects.

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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by mmcnl on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:35PM (#34224658)
For all intents are purposes they are roughly the same. Same ideology, same goal, same developer workflow. Vue has a bit more syntactic sugar which takes away most of the complexity of React (unnecessary rerenders, useEffect hook that has its own book and still no one understands it) at the cost of somewhat leaky abstractions. Vue 3 is a huge step ahead by the way.
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Re:Ask HN: Why did Frontend development explode in complexity? by mhuffman on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @08:40AM (#34231147)
Everything will get complicated on large projects. The problem, especially the problem pointed out by GP, is that there is a lot of over-complication in smaller projects ... which is most projects!
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