Over the last 3 years I've started to feel more and more vindicated.
I explicitly opted out of most web development when it turned into angular/react and later vue. I've done work in both angular and vue so I've not been able to avoid them completely, but mostly.
And the reason was a fundamental disagreement with their approach. It has _always_ felt to me like people took a good idea (AJAX) and took it entirely too far.
And they found themselves fighting fundamentally with the browser, so the industry's solution was to create new standards such as the history API, when the REAL solution was to just not do what they were doing.
Does react bring legitimate good ideas? Probably, somewhere, but thank god we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
imo the best thing to come out of it all is typescript.
I explicitly opted out of most web development when it turned into angular/react and later vue. I've done work in both angular and vue so I've not been able to avoid them completely, but mostly.
And the reason was a fundamental disagreement with their approach. It has _always_ felt to me like people took a good idea (AJAX) and took it entirely too far.
And they found themselves fighting fundamentally with the browser, so the industry's solution was to create new standards such as the history API, when the REAL solution was to just not do what they were doing.
Does react bring legitimate good ideas? Probably, somewhere, but thank god we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
imo the best thing to come out of it all is typescript.