Very well said! We built and shipped a very very large React website. It takes 7 sec to print the front page in Google Lighthouse.
Well our team just didn't stop at just showing some html and css via js but we even parsed 10k-50k lines of markdown documentation on the browser itself, which wasn't so bad initial when the lines were just 500 but as the project grew so the documentation. One major issue I find is incapability of React developers to looks for other potential contenders or to say, including myself is the misconception of thinking that programming in JavaScript is the correct programing paradigm even when we have to drive our css and html from our javascript. I am not going to use React for everything, even for static websites I have decided not to use Gatsby when I can just drive most of my static content via proper file structuring and small javascript scripts.
I think React is good for dashboard(interactive) and for better code maintenance (component architecture) but that's just what developer cares for not the end user. Please correct me if I'm wrong, thanks for reading.
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Very well said! We built and shipped a very very large React website. It takes 7 sec to print the front page in Google Lighthouse.
Well our team just didn't stop at just showing some html and css via js but we even parsed 10k-50k lines of markdown documentation on the browser itself, which wasn't so bad initial when the lines were just 500 but as the project grew so the documentation. One major issue I find is incapability of React developers to looks for other potential contenders or to say, including myself is the misconception of thinking that programming in JavaScript is the correct programing paradigm even when we have to drive our css and html from our javascript. I am not going to use React for everything, even for static websites I have decided not to use Gatsby when I can just drive most of my static content via proper file structuring and small javascript scripts.
I think React is good for dashboard(interactive) and for better code maintenance (component architecture) but that's just what developer cares for not the end user. Please correct me if I'm wrong, thanks for reading.