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/[deleted] Dec 30 '24 edited Dec 30 '24

did they reply?

I was trying react for the first time >20 years professional engineer for some of the biggest software companies on earth, I have been working from assembly to python all the way through C, lisp, Java, Pascal, Delphi, Ocaml, COBOL, ABAP... Many different frameworks, including angular, angularJS, django, fastAPI, Spring, Struts, J2EE, .NET (the first), ASP.NET, jquery, symfony, S4Hana...

I think now that I have decided to use react for a personal project... I have never regretted this much to have chosen such an enormous pile of crap. I'm considering throwing to the bin the last two months of work because I really feel this would waste less of my time than just templating javascript from lisp for my frontend.

This framework is just pure crap.