The trash comments are very flame-baity but the underlying assertion is true that it’s been a long time since it was “the obvious choice”.
One of the somewhat ironic things that I don’t know is well understood within the React community is that just purely by the nature of its particular architectural details, it’s only going to continue to become and worse and worse choice as time goes on.
What started as its main selling point (an abstraction over the messy parts of web standards at the time) has actually become one of its biggest liabilities.
It was fundamentally designed around solving problems that just haven’t been problems for some time now and much better options do indeed exist.
That’s to say absolutely nothing of how it has since been hijacked by a for profit VC backed company who are just making everything worse and more complicated with more lock in.
Now is a good time to start looking for the exits. I don’t think having it as the default for a new project in 2024 is a good idea either.
One of the somewhat ironic things that I don’t know is well understood within the React community is that just purely by the nature of its particular architectural details, it’s only going to continue to become and worse and worse choice as time goes on.
What started as its main selling point (an abstraction over the messy parts of web standards at the time) has actually become one of its biggest liabilities.
It was fundamentally designed around solving problems that just haven’t been problems for some time now and much better options do indeed exist.
That’s to say absolutely nothing of how it has since been hijacked by a for profit VC backed company who are just making everything worse and more complicated with more lock in.
Now is a good time to start looking for the exits. I don’t think having it as the default for a new project in 2024 is a good idea either.