Comment by davedx
1 day ago
Bashing react today is like bashing Java in ~2010.
There are some valid criticisms of react but a lot of them want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, much like with many other mature technologies.
I celebrate people who can produce something innovative in the web development world, but at least produce something before making these grand claims while bashing what came before. Those abstractions are there for good reasons!
And a lot of that bashing comes from people who don't understand React or the ecosystem it's part of.
Personally, I only started bashing it in earnest after reading most of its source code.
More like bashing Enterprise Java Beans?
That feels more like bashing Redux or one of the state management libraries. That's where I've seen a lot of complexity sneak in.
Maybe the Spring ecosystem.
The only similarity is that it is/was popular to bash both. The reasons for bashing and utility of each are vastly different.