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by xerox13ster 217 days ago
Yes. When I dipped my toes into the front end ecosystem in 2021 to build a portfolio site, the month old tutorial video I followed, was already out of date. React had released an update to routers and I could not find any documentation on it. Googling for the router brought me to pages that said to do what I had done, which disagreed with the error message that I was getting from react.

React had just updated and documentation hadn’t.

I then discovered that Meta owns React so I got frustrated as hell with their obfuscation and ripped out all of the React and turned what was left into vanilla html+js.

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React-router is it's own separate project not affiliated with Meta. React library doesn't ship a router.
Yet at the time it seemed to need one. Glad I never looked back at that fragmented mess.

I also don’t ‘KTH-Trust’ Meta of all corporations to have a compile step for a web technology.