How does one build large front end apps without using a framework like React?

Re:How does one build large front end apps without using a f... by whizzter on Friday October 17, 2025 @07:50AM (#45615644)

I agree with the Next shitshow, but webpack/CRA was always shaky while Vite's sane defaults (and great reloading) has been a great improvement for us outside of the Next world and functional components now feels like a fairly non-error prone and simple way to work so I don't see that going away for a long time (and has already lasted a bunch of years).

I think the only shaky moving part for us right now is styled components being left behind due to the RSC changes, but there's both mostly source compatible rewrites as well as perhaps even better alternatives (vanilla-extract).

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Re:How does one build large front end apps without using a f... by tracker1 on Friday October 17, 2025 @02:37PM (#45620301)

Agreed... I quickly ejected from the couple CRA projects I've used and quickly switched to Parcel, then Vite as they matured as it's just a much better experience. Not nearly as bad as trying to update some of the testing frameworks.

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