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   Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 05:24:42 JST Alex Russell

   At absolutely no point in the 2020s should you, or anyone you don't hate, start a project with React.

   There are a lot of reasons for this -- that it's legacy tech built for a world where IE 6 still had measurable share, that the Reactor community has been wrong about everything all the time for a decade+, that the money you'll save can be measured in truck-loads -- but the *most* important is that it will opt you out of the godforsaken React discourse.

   Be free! Never look back. Do engineering.

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     Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 05:24:33 JST Alex Russell

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     • Paul Mc

     @mccrodp This will sound glib, but the real tension today is between the assumption of framework-silo'd development and thinking about user needs. They don't *sound* like opposites, but I promise that they are.

     The advice I give most teams it to start with user needs:

     https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles

     And then follow progressive-enhancement as far as it will take you:

     https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

     This will put server-generated HTML+CSS back on the menu, which is a lifesaver.

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     Paul Mc (mccrodp@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 05:24:41 JST Paul Mc

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     @slightlyoff React is awful. As a developer I hated it, hated Redux when that was a thing, and hated it more as a Product Manager. Felt like forever reinventing the wheel and breaking basic functionality in the process.

     Out of interest, what do you recommend, any frontend frameworks, or going vanilla HMTL/JS/CSS?

     alcinnz repeated this.