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Comment by burningChrome

7 days ago

>> To add, the other dominant force is Angular, very popular in enterprise settings.

I work at a fortune 200 company. Worked in development for 5 years before moving into accessibility. I still have good friends who are still working on dev teams here. When I left, people were saying how shitty Angular was and how React was the way of the future.

5 years later and they're rebuilding several enterprise apps that were built with React and going back to Angular. I guess one of the directors, in an all hands team meeting basically said, "The ReactJS experiment is officially OVER."

Its anecdotal evidence, but it seems large projects and teams are going back to Angular for familiarity, ease of debugging and maintainability - not necessarily speed and performance. Which when I was still in dev circles, that was all that mattered.

It kind of feels like another changing of the guard in the industry right now.

> ease of debugging

I had thought to start trying to contribute to the Grafana project and it turns out the whole frontend is React and some completely impenetrable flavor of it to boot. How do people work like this? It’s insane.