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Discussion on: Is React really that bad?

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yellow1912 • Edited
  1. Bundle size matters, especially for frontend projects. Slow cold start can turn away potential users. People who work more on frontend projects are quite obsessed with shaving off just a few seconds.
  2. Speed matters, no one like laggy app. I dumped angular 1 because it was very laggy to the point that we had to adapt our ui to speed it up.
  3. Ease of use matter if you want the whole team to participate in it. Vuejs for example has a low barrier of entry, basically any old school js dev can pick it up and start working on it fast. Many other frameworks ask you to learn typescript and a bunch of other new features.

I'm not bashing react in any way. Each library has its own place. But there are valid reasons for people to choose (and not choose) any framework/tool.

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Aakash Chaudhary

It's totally personal choice and easy of way for choosing the right tool. As comparing , there is no like huge bump in speed and bundle size between react and (vue or svelte). I totally appreciate your point of view. But as you can see these days , some dev's are literally bashing react and saying It's too large and slow . Thank you for sharing your opinion.