[joshcsimmons]

The organized mid to large web app DOES NOT EXIST - it is a myth, like sasquatch. In the swath of experience I've had from working small startups to massive corporations I have never seen this mythical "organized mid-to-large sized web app" nor heard of anyone speak of it.

There will ALWAYS be cruft, and doubly so in a webapp since what is essentially the "build target" is always moving, heck the language it runs on is always moving.

The title of the post might as well be, "has anyone else worked in a mid to large sized web app code base?". The experience is ubiquitous and has nothing to do with React specifically. In fact the problems that the author mentions, "Large component files with excessive composability" for example, is easily overcome with the exceptional tooling that now exists in the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem - of course one might not realize the huge strides that have been taken here if they've only been doing web dev for a couple years.

Anecdotally - I really don't like to see Reddit posts pop up on HN, it degrades the quality of this site towards Reddit's level.