[joshxyz]

I did the following, still comfy with react.

- Got rid of redux because it's shit

- Got rid of Material UI because it's bulky and its API changes are painful, replaced it with tailwind

- Got rid of React Router because it's bulky and its API changes are also painful, replaced it with a simple hook

[finiteseries]

I haven’t used react since 2017, but the fact that react-router is still undergoing painful API changes somehow doesn’t surprise me.

[idkwhoiam]

How did you replace Material UI with Tailwind? You mean you reimplemented all the components it ships with?

[joshxyz]

Well that's just impossible. What I just noticed was that when I looked deeper on MUI components, their internals are bulky and almost always used a mixed of JS & CSS instead of just CSS. They even import an external library for their styling.

On low-end devices it's a bit too much (I'm talking about edge-case users with phones as cheap as $50). It was also quite a chore keeping up with their API changes every couple months.

I forced myself to cut down on components and just style my UI with CSS. It's more consistent, more predictable, and less strain on the end-user's device. It's a trade-off across looking good, better end-user performance, good user experience, good developer experience, and having more time for the product and users instead of maintaining and updating dependencies.