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by leggomylibro 3386 days ago
Javascript I get, but React? Why use a flavor-du-jour library for something like this?
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mikewhy 3386 days ago
People have been using React since 2014. Is 3 years really still "du jour"?
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flukus 3385 days ago
Yes absolutely. Unfortunately in the javascript world it probably means that it's legacy by now.
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leggomylibro 3386 days ago
Certainly, compared to something solid and well-understood like Javascript which has been around since 1997.

I'd complain the same way if it were a C++ project requiring Boost or something.

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Sacho 3385 days ago
Boost has existed since 1999-2000, which aligns with ES3.

As for solid and well-understood... Douglas Crockford wrote a book on how "solid" Javascript is, called "Javascript: The Good Parts". One of his most common refrains about JS was "Javascript is The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language". [0][1]

ES5 came out in 2009. ES6 was standardized after React came out.

[0] - http://javascript.crockford.com/javascript.html

[1] - http://javascript.crockford.com/popular.html

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user15672 3386 days ago
Yes, yes it is
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nbardy 3386 days ago
It's about having a declarative UI library. React is just the syntax Facebook prefers.
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hexasquid 3385 days ago
Shall we do it in jQuery?
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