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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by patates on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:23AM (#45259963)
Javascript has warts, React has warts, Svelte has warts, Python has warts... It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot in any tech - it's leaky abstractions all the way down after all.

useEffect usage needs to die, yes. I don't think it's a case against React, given its age.

Otherwise, using React is straightforward. I started coding in it without reading any docs. As someone who used Dojo, prototype, ext.js, jQuery (+UI), Backbone.js, knockout (still has a special place), Mithril, the classic angular, vue (2), svelte, Marko and even Solid (I'm not totally sold on signals), React is the most straightforward by a mile.

Is it the most performant? Hell no. Is it the one with the least gotchas/warts? Nope. Concise? A giant no. Batteries included? It depends on what you're looking for...

But I can just be productive with it, and it makes sense.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by thedelanyo on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:56AM (#45260173)
A child who hasn't tasted other mom's food always say, my mom is the best cook in the world.

You saying you can be productive in react is just ironic. I just read it as, I can be employable using React.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by patates on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:11AM (#45260283)
My brain does this sometimes, sorry :) I meant to say, "I can just be productive immediately in React". Not going to edit though.

edit: also about the moms cooking analogy... With many of those libs/frameworks, I have much more experience with than react.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by thedelanyo on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @06:17AM (#45260332)
You like jokes
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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by TrnsltLife on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @04:48PM (#45267823)
We need to determine which framework is most productive while suffering from Mommy brain.
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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by sfn42 on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:59AM (#45264023)
Bro lists like 8 different moms whose food he has, then says he likes react-moms food, and you make it sound like that's the only thing he's ever had. Did you even read the comment you replied to?
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