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[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago

What's this dude talking about?! Everyone knows no one hates React like people who code in React 😂 No one is gonna get pissed off watching this.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I used to be a React dev. The only thing I hated more than React was my boss.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Do React devs really hate React?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Isn’t the adage that you either have haters or no users?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't, but it can be really annoying when I accidentally fall for a common trap that I supposedly know how to avoid after all these years! Gah.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I think it’s great and I’ve been working with it for 6 years. Many issues were resolved over time. We didn’t even have hooks back when I started! Those were dark times. And the new compiler helps with memoization.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I remember years ago when React was the savior of web apps Swooping in engineers from the clutches of JQuery and AngularJS (not to be confused with Angular 2+). Components we’re gonna make things simpler than the mess of JS files and global state.

And generally that’s true but we’ve traded that off for a mess of hooks and 700 line nested functions in nested functions and obtuse rules that only apply to react and not JS.

Complex web apps are hard.

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