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by bluejekyll 3507 days ago
Yes, thank you. This has been my biggest problem with React as well. It feels like they are fighting against some of the most natural ways to use CSS in code. Which is too bad, b/c CSS is awesome, and React is awesome. But together it feels like they don't play well.
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boubiyeah 3507 days ago
Why? They actually can play well, at least, just as well as standard HTML + CSS.

It's just that people are now trying to componentize everything, including styles, so it's a new requirement we didn't have before. Put another way, one could say that now that we have a good solution for client side rendering, we then turned to good old global, cascading, hard to maintain CSS to try and fix that guy next.

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bluejekyll 3507 days ago
Perhaps it's a CSS issue. I've just noticed that when working only with CSS adding and removing classes in JS it's simple. All of the React frameworks feel like they don't meld well with that.

I will not claim to be a JS expert by any means. In my basic usage of HTML, JS and CSS; I find that I can manipulate the look and feel easier with Jquery. When I add in React, I get a really elegant MVC system, but loose the ease of adding and removing classes of different HTML elements.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but that's just my experience.

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