If you valued your sanity when developing complex Web UIs, React was a lifesaver.
DOM sucks though, it's slow, it's heavyweight, it lacks transactions. We're stuck with it, and frameworks like React have to do the DOM diffing + patching thing, explicitly, in JS.
If you valued your sanity when developing complex Web UIs, React was a lifesaver.
DOM sucks though, it's slow, it's heavyweight, it lacks transactions. We're stuck with it, and frameworks like React have to do the DOM diffing + patching thing, explicitly, in JS.
Nah.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971164
React appeared in 2013, Svelte, in 2016. Three years is a lot. What comes next can see and avoid some pitfalls of earlier designs.
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React was a solution to a ten years ago problem
You can downvote it but it doesn’t make it any less true
Alex Russell has written swathes of arguments about Reacts performance issues https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
The DOM has become much faster since React started over a decade ago, the VDOM really isn’t needed anymore even for app like experiences
React is about developer preference over user experience
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