[isoprophlex]

You're not wrong, but when you're inheriting a convoluted 50 file React shitfest that could have been a single HTML page and 20 lines of javascript... what are you going to do? Invest time in understanding that, or radically simplify in 20% of the time it takes to grok what you get thrown at you?

[codelobe]

Ah, I see you are also a coder of culture...

The trick is to get the Project Management to migrate to a hot new framework: Vanilla JS...

http://vanilla-js.com/

[groestl]

No, a single HTML page and 20 lines of Javascript is clear cut. But there's a _lot_ of instances where it's not that way, and still rewrites are being proposed.

[asalahli]

Well I still need to understand what it is doing in order to radically simplify it and still have it do the exact same thing.

[waynesonfire]

strawman. why do you even have a 50 file react shitfest to begin with? Hint: perhaps because someone want to pad their resume?

[TeMPOraL]

Hint: because almost every web developer is a junior who doesn't know what they're doing.

Proof: that's literally what a significant positive growth rate of an occupation means - if the doubling period is N years, then at any given moment, half the workforce has N years of experience or less. I don't remember the estimate for webdev, but I think N was something between 3 to 5 years.

[groestl]

I've seen this. Usually a combination of no economical constraints and technical curiosity on the engineers side.