React.js Debate
This cluster features debates on React.js's value, necessity, and overuse in web development, contrasting it with vanilla JavaScript or alternatives like Svelte, while discussing its benefits, bloat, and ecosystem.
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no. react solves no real problems. stick with vanilla
How about...no...? React isn't the solution to every problem.
In which situations is React unsuitable? I learned web development starting with React and have been using it for everything since.
If your entire react application can be replaced with 3 lines of javascript, you probably didn't need react
It's odd that sooo many things are still successfully built on top of react.
Has React become too big for people to not consider other alternatives? I used to be a big React advocate but realised that it is getting too bloated with every new release. Have been looking into Svelte and it is turning out to be a breath of fresh air compared to whatever React is culminating to be.
That statement indicates you don't know why react was developed.
The benefits of react have been belabored for a decade, if none of that reasoning makes sense to you, just don't use it.
React is THE web framework. The difference between react and previous frameworks is like night and day. Maybe nowadays people are seeing the rough spots with things like useEffect but pre-react web was literal hell for web development.
This reads more like reluctance to use the more functional paradigms react has to offer rather than anything being set back.