Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation
by mythrwy on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:07PM
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I did switch over to Vue.
Well not technically switch, I never learned React properly because I didn't like it when it first came out and by the time I gave it a second look there were already a gazillion React devs so I just stuck with Vue.
Vue just seems much more intuitive and sane to me. Sane is relative for front end frameworks of course. Don't get me started on Angular I got PTSD and couldn't code for a couple of months from a large Angular project with an offshore team.
I do get the benefit of using these framework for teams, and they are nifty once you get what is happening, but I still scratch my head when I see all the steps and files to do simple things I used to bang out in a few dozen lines of jQuery.
Well not technically switch, I never learned React properly because I didn't like it when it first came out and by the time I gave it a second look there were already a gazillion React devs so I just stuck with Vue.
Vue just seems much more intuitive and sane to me. Sane is relative for front end frameworks of course. Don't get me started on Angular I got PTSD and couldn't code for a couple of months from a large Angular project with an offshore team.
I do get the benefit of using these framework for teams, and they are nifty once you get what is happening, but I still scratch my head when I see all the steps and files to do simple things I used to bang out in a few dozen lines of jQuery.