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by AndreasHae 290 days ago
The hate is more geared towards SPAs in general, but there are some shining examples that show that a well-made React/Angular/whatever app can have great UX - Clockify being one of them.

I don’t think the culprit apps would have substantially better UX if they were rendered on the server, because these issues tend to be a consequence of devs being pressured to rapidly release new features without regard to quality.
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disgruntledphd2 290 days ago
And to be fair, the problems that Facebook had when they introduced React are not common problems at all.

As an aside, I was an employee around then and I vividly remember that the next half there was a topline goal to improve web speed. Hmmmm, I wonder what could have happened?

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Zanfa 290 days ago
> And to be fair, the problems that Facebook had when they introduced React are not common problems at all.

That’s one of my favorites. The exact bug they described during React launch presentation, that React was supposed to help fix with the unidirectional dataflow. You know the one where unread message badges were showing up inconsistently in the UI in different places. They never managed to fix that bug in the 10 years since React was announced and I eventually left Facebook for good.

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disgruntledphd2 290 days ago
To be fair, that bug increases engagement so it'll never be fixed. All must kneel before Deltoid/QRT!
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adithyassekhar 290 days ago
That's a good example.
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