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by xmatos
3351 days ago
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Amen! React might be the best tool for building hybrid mobile or even cross platform electron apps, but the truth is, it suck balls for web development​. Bundling the entire website inside a single js file, that needs to be re-downloaded everytime you add a div or change a single css class is stupid, sorry. Your website doesn't need to be pure text. It can be beautiful, modern and responsive. And it doesn't need much js for that. The world has become mobile first, not js-centric. Pushing spa everywhere is just wrong. |
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Citing only one side of any architectural trade-offs isn't particularly interesting either. The other side is that we can now easily build sites using Universal JS (serverside-rendered combined with SPA).
Delivering a website with seemingly instantaneous repaints even on flaky internet connections is just a superior end-user experience.
Just click through the primary nav of a Universal JS site vs an old-school one, and it feels like we've been putting up with the equivalent of the old 300 ms tap delay, but for all websites and website links.
Not engineering away that latency penalty will tend towards foolish for website properties that want to remain competitive.
Users will become increasingly accustomed to very responsive sites and the latency penalty that is currently normalised will become more glaring and unacceptable.