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Discussion on: What are the things that scare you as a Developer? 🎃

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Rammina

Typescript cough cough

I stopped arguing with those people, and I just link them to this article.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

React also

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Rammina

React?
As someone who really loves React, I got hit pretty hard by that! Haha. When would React be inappropriate for a project (assuming its still FE web development)?

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

Many, many places. Maybe not just React, but frameworks in general. I've lost count of the number of REALLY simple websites (Portfolio websites with next to zero interactivity, holding pages for upcoming projects, single page form websites, etc. - the list is long) that, for some bizarre reason, have been built using a framework. It literally makes no sense

(I personally loathe React, that's probably why I singled it out initially. I work with it on daily basis though, unfortunately 😞)

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Rammina

Oh, yeah! Vanilla Javascript/HTML/CSS would perform better than React for simple noninteractive webpages. It also has better SEO.

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Jon Randy 🎖️

Vanilla JS would perform better than React for ALL websites. Frameworks become handy when the complexity of the site means that development using raw JS would start becoming a nightmare... in these cases, a framework would likely be easier to manage. It's a trade-off