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by rouxz 2068 days ago
Sad state of JS frontend. Overcomplicating things is the first thought that we have now, then we think about the requirements.
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Complain about JQuery yet this loads in less than 300ms.

Struggle to imagine any React/Redux engineer I know getting this on the screen in even 3 seconds let alone sub 1. Depresses me how even 10 second webpage load times are considered acceptable in that toolchain, I know it's capable of better but it clearly needs more work to get there than people are willing to put in.

You and I must be using very different react applications.
Please send the react engineers you know my way, I'm begging here.
Why single out JS? Everything developers do nowadays is overcomplicated. See all the posts from large companies saying they switched to this and that for tenuous at best reasons. Then we get a post later saying they're switching back.
It really isnt. Poor developers might, but poor developers will over complicate things in any domain.
The problem is, the industry favors overcomplicating developers, because there's more of them, over those who actually have a clue what their code is doing.