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.

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Do React devs really hate React?

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days 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.