[ricardobeat]

> A library that let's me focus on business logic rather than boilerplate or implementation details is one that I want to continue using.

React is the exact opposite of that. Endless boilerplate, abstractions and unwritten rules. As the reality of large projects sets in, they look nothing like the starter examples.

[romellem]

What frontend library do you think offers less boilerplate, clearer abstractions, and more well defined rules?

[mhoad]

I really enjoy the Lit model. It’s quite a bit faster than React, it is a tiny bit of syntactic sugar on top of browser APIs. It’s powering Photoshop (https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/) and a future release of YouTube I believe.

Take a look at real code here https://lit.dev/tutorial/ and component conceptual model here https://lit.dev/docs/components/overview/

[picaso]

Lit is just react with web components. It uses all the same magic, and a whole bunch of documentation is needed (is this state reflective, reactive, blah blah). It does the same "let me figure out updates in the background and you don't worry about it" as React, just without a virtual DOM.