Comment by nfw2
4 years ago
"I personally am totally for ditching html and css from the browsers and just leave JS with some nice APIs (without DOM nonsense) and let us work with web apps like we would with desktop apps."
Have you tried using React Native For Web? The name is so ironic it almost seems like a joke, but I think the rationale is to simplify things as you are suggesting
Yeah it’s a nice idea, but it still has to mess with DOM and css in the end.
I just think that web apps are not web pages. And all this struggle with css quirks and all this power wasted on parsing DOM is not really needed. I know that if what you need is a blog, then html with css is enough. But building interactive apps with backend templates rendering ends up like Github (slow and with bad user experience), or it requires a lot of crazy jQuery hackery we have been doing in the old days. And I’ll pick building a React app any time I have a choice like that.