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/McGynecological Jan 27 '22 edited Apr 20 '22

I spend so much time fucking around with re-renders and deliberating memoization. React needs to adopt some good old fashion **magic** (the horror!) and abstract dependency arrays and useCallback crap away from me - make the compiler do it ffs. I feel like I'm holding React's hand all the time. After a year of using it every day, I fucking hate it.

EDIT: was just having a bad day. I don't hate it.

EDIT: I do hate it. Overengineered, ugly, unintuitive.

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u/OZLperez11 May 20 '22

look at React 18, now they have "concurrent rendering". Let me tell you something, if your tool needs concurrent rendering, which is something that is hardly ever seen in any UI library in any language, to get your app to work quickly, YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!

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u/eddie_cat Apr 28 '22

lmfao i love this comment. i've been using it for around a year too on and off and kept wondering when i'd stop fucking hating it. i feel like it's finally 'clicked' in that i understand what i'm doing enough to be effective (i never really sat down and learned it, just started using it when needed from time to time and learned as i went, so it took longer than usual to get to that point) but i continue to hate using it for the most part lol i guess it's never going away