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Discussion on: #DEVDiscuss: Rethinking the Modern Web

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Andrew March

My view is that react is for web apps, and html just isn’t a good fit for apps. I hope some day we just write for canvas, and spend those thousands of code-hours on working from the ground up, with the raw pixels on the screen, rather then piling hack after hack on top of an obsolete DOM. Apps are not documents! 🎀

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Oxford Harrison

Hi Andrew, I might agree with you 50% in my follow up post detailing some of those challenges and the proposals around each:

dev.to/oxharris/revisiting-the-htm...