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by MarcelOlsz 232 days ago
I rolled my eyes when hooks came out and never used it again besides for work, so not really. All the frameworks on the planet and facebook is still a heaping pile of dog shit. I was spoiled by Vue's lifecycle methods and then Svelte and it was impossible to go back.

Maybe hooks are cool but the same code written in react vs vue vs svelte or something else is always easier on the eyes and more readable. Dependency arrays and stale closures are super annoying.

Sorry but I really hate React. I've dealt with way too many shit codebases. Meanwhile working in vue/svelte is a garden of roses even if written by raw juniors.
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nawgz 232 days ago
> I've dealt with way too many shit codebases.

Congrats, it's the most popular framework, no doubt there are abuses out there.

I highly doubt raw juniors are actually writing beautiful vue/svelte code, if obviously emotionally charged anecdotes are your only arguments here, I think you can just admit you see "Facebook" and crash out...

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MarcelOlsz 231 days ago
Apologies for not submitting a paper to an academic journal about why I hate React.
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nawgz 231 days ago
"I hate React, and here's some false-on-the-face anecdotes" is not a comment worth making.
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dominicrose 232 days ago
This is going to sound selfish, but I liked being a solo React Typescript developer. My colleagues worked on UI/UX, back-end, DB, specs, etc, but I was responsible for the React code and I could just iterate and iterate without having to submit every change as a pull request.

Now with Laravel, Blade and JQuery the IDE support is low but everything is easy enough and we work as a team and do merge requests and it's a chill job even if it's full stack.

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MarcelOlsz 232 days ago
Hilarious its come full circle again. React was a breath of fresh air for fe's back in the day, and now we're back at jQuery! Why the switch from React to Laravel/Blade/JQuery?

>I liked being a solo React Typescript developer.

Being a solo FE rocks. Everyone thinks you're a magician. The worst is FE-by-committee where you get 'full-stack' devs but really they're 99% postgres and 1% html.

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