I have spent my morning pleasantly reading the comments here after reading the article.
I am struck that a lot of us here start the comments with "I have been a React developer for [3, 4, 5] years"
I think this illustrates the fundamental weakness in the approach of people in the Javascrpt Frameworks world.
Billion dollar organisations build software that will cost tens of millions to develop want, or should want, more experience than that.
Javascrpit, and "Web 2.0", generally have been around long enough to meet the requirements, but this churn in frameworks is enough to make anybody with a stake in organisations shake with fear.
IMO plain old vanilla JS with a sprinkling of libraries for syntactic sugar (and they can be hand rolled - or use JQuery) is a much better proposition than all of these shiny and new stacks that keep getting deprecated.
Web front ends are a huge boon, and the settling of basic JS syntax and implementations makes some very good things possible that were not possible twenty years ago. But the whole industry is being held back by allways wanting "better", and not accepting "good".
You might assume that, but operating at the level of DOM manipulations is too low-level for a large application.
They are huge productivity boosters. I agree that they are often used irresponsibly resulting in poor quality software. Poor software isn't limited to the browser, however. A lot of commercial software is garbage. Profit incentives seem to encourage software that is barely fit for purpose.
I the 1990s, when I started out as a working computer programmer it used to be said that 90% of software projects failed.
I have no idea what the figure is now, and now I have more experience, seen abject failure defined as tremendous success I would not be surprised if it si worse in fact and better in annual reports.
I am struck that a lot of us here start the comments with "I have been a React developer for [3, 4, 5] years"
I think this illustrates the fundamental weakness in the approach of people in the Javascrpt Frameworks world.
Billion dollar organisations build software that will cost tens of millions to develop want, or should want, more experience than that.
Javascrpit, and "Web 2.0", generally have been around long enough to meet the requirements, but this churn in frameworks is enough to make anybody with a stake in organisations shake with fear.
IMO plain old vanilla JS with a sprinkling of libraries for syntactic sugar (and they can be hand rolled - or use JQuery) is a much better proposition than all of these shiny and new stacks that keep getting deprecated.
Web front ends are a huge boon, and the settling of basic JS syntax and implementations makes some very good things possible that were not possible twenty years ago. But the whole industry is being held back by allways wanting "better", and not accepting "good".