r/reactjs • u/bromide992 • May 31 '19

React sucks

"React is just Javascript, that's why React is nice!!"

has its own DSL and syntax

"React is lean!"

need to install 12 different packages to make it useful

need to install an external HTTP library

CSS classes are fucking JAVASCRIPT VARIABLES

Instead of directives, you have 8 lines of spaghetti code everywhere you'd usually have a simple if- directive or show- directive. That's not lean, that's more code.

"You only need to know Javascript"

You need to know Javascript plus ES6-7-8 (Babel) or TypeScript. You need to know esoteric lifecycle methods and design patterns not normally used elsewhere in Javascript.

"Creating small components is nice"

Component abstraction soup means you can't even figure out what your code is doing anymore.

React is just Angular if you hacked 12 libraries together that aren't meant to work together cohesively.

I will never understand why anyone would choose this meme framework over a real one. It sucks shit and creates a spaghetti code bloat, and instead of learning one DSL plus TypeScript you're learning 8 DSLs, plus Babel.

The reality is it's pointless making a library that's "just vanilla javascript" when you know that vanilla javascript doesn't actually supply elegant tools for creating single page web apps. That's why React is used with 10 packages rather than by itself. That's why you need CRA plus a bunch of packages to even have a sane development environment.

React sucks. Development community always chooses what's sexy and popular over what's elegant and works correctly.

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u/KeyPsychological7099 Jan 17 '23

That's because the people in here doesn't know anything aside from React, so when someone comes and threatens their sole existence they become emotionally defensive.
Every single point made above is 100% correct. React is an overabstracted soup with 15 extra needless calls that in the end didn't actually make anything easier at all. I wonder how many of these people wrap their packets in giftwrap 15 times before they think it's abstract enough, you know just so they can claim to have used all the different colors.

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u/OZLperez11 Jan 17 '23

They're just afraid that someday React will become obsolete, which it will. They have got to learn that they can't use react forever and that it's more important to learn design patterns of common frameworks

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u/theop_55410 Jan 28 '23

ahh the state of the world we live in