Daniel Morrison
adactio.com/links/19449 This. I’m told there are good React apps out there, but they aren’t the ones I keep running into.
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React - Josh Collinsworth blog
Matcalfe’s Law in action:
Companies keep choosing React because they know there’s a massive pool of candidates who know it; candidates keep learning React because they know companies are hiring for it. It’s a self-sustaining cycle.
But the problem is:
React isn’t great at anything except being popular.
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Default Isn’t Design
Framework monoculture is a psychology problem as much as a tech problem. When one approach becomes “how things are done,” we unconsciously defend it even when standards would give us a healthier, more interoperable ecosystem. Psychologists call this reflex System Justification.
The explains a lot about React-driven front-end development!
When a single toolset becomes the default, we don’t just prefer it, we build narratives that justify it. And that’s when a tool quietly becomes a gate or even a destructive force.
The Neverending Story
Since the early days of the web, large corporations have seemingly always wanted more than the web platform or web standards could offer at any given moment. Whether they were aiming for cross-platform-compatibility, more advanced capabilities, or just to be the one runtime/framework/language to rule them all, there’s always been a company that believes they can “fix” it or “own” it.
Applets. ActiveX. Flash. Flex. Silverlight. Angular. React.
HTML Web Components: An Example - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Here’s an excellent case study of an HTML web component. Jim starts by showing how you’d create the component in React; then he shows how you’d do it as a JavaScript web component; finally he shows the way to do it as an HTML web component:
The point is we’re starting with a baseline, core experience that will provide basic functionality and content to a wide array of user agents before any JavaScript is required.
Once you’ve done everything you can in vanilla HTML to provide core elements of your baseline experience, you can begin enhancing the existing markup with additional functionality.
This is where HTML web components shine.
How to (not) make a button - Tomas Pustelnik’s personal website
A demonstration of how even reinventing a relatively simple wheel takes way more effort than it’s worth when you could just use what the brower gives you for free.
The radium craze | Eric Bailey
The radioactive properties of React.
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In which I find a tagline for Web Day Out and a tagline for React.
Frustration
Applying the principle of least power to tools and technologies.
Whatever works for you
There are many ways to style a cat.
Lightweight
Minimum viable television and minimum viable websites.
Less JavaScript
The Google developer relations team are dishing out some inconvenient truths.