Removing React is just weakness leaving your codebase — Begin Blog
January 29, 2024
Well, there must have been something in the zeitgeist, as we’ve seen a spate of articles where developers are voicing their displeasure with React.
- Increasingly miffed about the state of React releases by Tom MacWright
- Kind of annoyed at React by Cassidy Williams
- React, where are you going? By Matteo Frana
- The Decline of React by Chris Ferdinandi
- Concatenating text by Johan Halse
It’s not that React has been immune to criticism, as Zach Leatherman has detailed in his post A Historical Reference of React Criticism, but it sure seems like we’ve reached a tipping point.
Source: Removing React is just weakness leaving your codebase — Begin Blog
Web Direction Summit 2023 (video coming soon) speaker Simon McDonald, a long time React developer who now works on the “HTML-first full stack framework” Enhance captures something of the spirit of the times perhaps referencing a list of articles from late 2023 alone that express a growing frustration with the state of React.
While react has long had its detractors, this sentiment is increasingly expressed by folks like Simon, Cassidy Williams and others who have a long history with React.
I think news of React’s demise is greatly exaggerated, but there definitely does seem to be something in the water with how we architect and engineer web applications.
