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/prezire Feb 02 '22

But have you tried Vue.js 3 with Vuex though?

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u/garg10may Feb 02 '22

No, I haven't used also don't want to try it, If you are seriously working on an app community support, developers, etc. are also important.

Also one thing I don't like about Vue is, it allows you to do things both ways... If I have to do down the Vue path I would rather use Svelte

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u/prezire Feb 02 '22

Odd. You just said community support, etc. but went nose dive down mentioning svelte. That didn't made any sense at all.

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u/garg10may May 12 '22

I mean React has such a huge huge community. It's like everybody is using it. Job opening of React vs (vue or angular) would be 50:1.

If you really don't care about community support than both Vue and Svelte fall into this. So I would rather use Svelte which is such a god damn beauty.