| Yeah I'm also laughing. The senior engineer could have just as easily wrote worse code. Just some weird obscure Javascript floating around editing the DOM directly causing untraceable errors in the future. React helps with lots of things; - Testability - Readability - Less side effects - Documentation - Rendering - Error Protection I could rattle on forever, might be time to write a blog post, gets a bit tiring reading the HN users who think we've just made the frontend complex for fun. Frontend development is HARD, factors include; - Plethora of device models/sizes - Latency / Async / Fetching (data) - Rendering speeds based off how you coded it - State Management / Cache Freshness / LocalStorage - Server Side Rendering - Code Bundling (js and css) - Design / Transitions / UX / UI etc Now why is all this important? Because to be a competitive app, it simply has to be sexy and slick. If I could do that with one style tag and one script tag, I would. |