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by reducesuffering 1138 days ago
Letting Vercel handle developing half your infra for you. Expensive.

Paying twice the $300k engineers to develop your VC scale app in 2023 using HTML templates or Create React App. Priceless

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It’s really not an either / or scenario at all.

There are tons of really good solutions to this problem that are incredibly affordable but they just aren’t popular in the React ecosystem which is once again off doing its own thing seemingly detached from everyone else and trying to just fit the React mental model into any abstraction they come across and patting themselves on the back about innovation in the process.

Honestly React is an actively terrible place to have as your center of the universe when trying to build the kind of app you described. Not to say you can’t or shouldn’t use it but it most certainly shouldn’t be where the core is.