If Not React, Then What?
December 4, 2024
While I’d like to be spending most of this time working through improvements to web APIs, the majority of time spent with partners goes to remediating performance and accessibility issues caused by “modern” frontend frameworks (React, Angular, etc.) and the culture surrounding them. These issues are most pronounced today in React-based stacks.This is disquieting because React is legacy technology, but it continues to appear in greenfield applications.
Alex Russell’s position on frameworks does not please everyone. Arguing against the prevailing current is always challenging. But given Alex’s monumental contribution to the Web platform, and his essentially unparalleled experience with the realities of the Web (including the political economy of the browser and standards landscape, a first hand experience of making the sausage of the Web platform) his writing (and speaking) as engaging, or difficult, as you may find them are required reading.
In this detailed article he turns to the question of how to architect a range of common site/app patterns.
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