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altern8 3 hours ago

What's wrong with React?

It made it so much better to build apps vs. spaghetti jQuery.

I still have nightmares about jeeping track of jQuery callbacks

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lopatin 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The problem with React is that it solved frontend.

So the options are to 1. Code React all day and be happy with it. 2. Come up with reasons why it's bad.

There are many talented and intellectually curious people in the field which lean towards 2.

	▲	gmac 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The problem with React IMHO is it’s so dominant and so annoyingly over-engineered for many problems. I use Mithril and find it much less fuss.

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bossyTeacher 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's overly verbose, untuitive and in 2025, having a virtual dom is no longer compulsory to write interactive web apps. If you want to write modern web apps, you can use Svelte. If you want to write web apps truly functionally, you can use Elm. React is the jQuery of our times. It was really helpful in the Angular era but we are living at the dawn of a new era now.