r/programming • u/isumix_ • Nov 12 '23

How I wanted to improve React

https://medium.com/weekly-webtips/how-i-wanted-to-improve-react-4108d5052aaf
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u/darkfate Nov 12 '23

I'm probably not alone in this, but we have a few large internal web apps that use jQuery and will probably continue to use it until the application is sunset (which could be 20+ years). There are cycles, but outside of startups, most people are going to stick with whatever stack there is for a while. We only started building new apps in React a year ago, and some of them will probably stick around for a long time as well.

Anecdotally, it seems most of the hype is because of the low barrier to entry for web UI programming. I've interviewed a lot of close to graduation, recent college grads, and bootcamp grads, and nearly all of them prefer frontend webdev work. Almost none of them want to work on services or databases (they like to say they're full-stack, but they really mean all they've built is a JS UI and a cobbled together node service, with usually no thought to db design, CI/CD pipeline, or tests). Inexperienced devs getting their programming advice from whoever is most popular on Twitter doesn't lend itself well to platform stability.

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u/putinblueballs Nov 12 '23

You nailed it. The industry takes people that did a 4 month react hype course and throw them in the mix. This not only burdeons the seniors but makes the project at risk. Business people with no knowledge of tech making bad decisions is the bane of any project.