Re:React is a fractal of bad design
by Illniyar on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @08:23AM
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The way I look at it - the majority of value with blogs and static website is content. Hence the majority of change is of content.
For apps the majority of value is functionality and that's where a lot of changes happen.
The main problem of maintenance happens where there is the most change - in JSX programming (I.E. functionality) is a first class citizen and it lends it easier to change.
With templates content is much more of a first-class citizen.
Of course this is all in the margins, you can write blogs/static sites well in react and applications well in template-based languages. The tradeoffs are just a bit skewed in favor of each, and it mostly manifests when you don't have time to be disciplined about changes.
For apps the majority of value is functionality and that's where a lot of changes happen.
The main problem of maintenance happens where there is the most change - in JSX programming (I.E. functionality) is a first class citizen and it lends it easier to change. With templates content is much more of a first-class citizen.
Of course this is all in the margins, you can write blogs/static sites well in react and applications well in template-based languages. The tradeoffs are just a bit skewed in favor of each, and it mostly manifests when you don't have time to be disciplined about changes.