React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation

Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by jjordan on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:57PM (#45255457)

I don't really recommend isomorphic environments, but if it's your cup of tea, Tanstack Start is making a lot of progress. It removes all of the magic and misdirection of Nextjs and just provides a good light alternative.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by rustystump on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:48PM (#45256339)

Issue with all things tanstack is they change everything constantly. The Tanner guy really does make decent libs but he drops em pretty quickly for others to take up maintenance on which makes it risky to pull into any production app.

The best library are the complete ones.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by koakuma-chan on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:59PM (#45255472)

AFAIK "TanStack" doesn't support RSCs? That's a deal breaker for me. Also the guy named his framework after himself, it can't be good.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by Swizec on Monday September 15, 2025 @08:06PM (#45256471)

For the record, the TanStack name comes from the community. Eventually Tanner stopped fighting back and made it official

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by staminade on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:16PM (#45255633)

Linus named Linux after himself, it can't be good!

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by presentation on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:21PM (#45256153)

They built a half baked version of it and then haven’t finished it for a while but maybe they’ll get back to it sometime.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by collingreen on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:17PM (#45255644)

Linux also sucks for this reason /s

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by jjordan on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:52AM (#45263918)

What do you get from RSCs that you don't get from creating a proper backend?

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by koakuma-chan on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:44PM (#45267003)

Having to glue the front-end and the back-end together.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by koakuma-chan on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:47PM (#45270605)

*not having

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by 0xblinq on Saturday September 20, 2025 @03:38PM (#45316616)

You don’t have to. Inertia.js exists.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by tombolino on Thursday September 25, 2025 @11:14PM (#45382211)

Inertia.js works based on pages as far as I know, right? We need load the data per page. RSC loads per component so I wouldn't call that comparable.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by throw-the-towel on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:52PM (#45255953)

Could you please elaborate on why you don't recommend isomorphic environments?

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