[runawaybottle]

It helps with working with a team of people with varying mental models.

If React didn’t exist, every team member would have their own way of writing up, I don’t know, a multi-select drop down component. With React, you can nip a little bit of creativity out of each individual team member for sanity’s sake. You would be shocked just how different people’s mental models actually are without a framework.

I already go nuts at how some people structure some components, and to keep this post at peak hyperbole, I’d give up on life if I had to see their vanilla js components.

It would be unmanageable emotionally. I’ve seen some people write components that are straight up php-like includes (e.g import ‘./FilterCategories’. Doesn’t take any args. Just for sanity’s sake, the fact that React is helping teams write composable/reusable modules (or that a module is a function that takes params, so don’t be a dick and make a shrink wrapped component with vars baked in), with brain-dead ways of wiring up component logic is probably one of the most stress-reducing advents in frontend.

Lots of finger pointing by me here, but I’m doing it to vent to strangers, instead of taking it out at work.