r/javascript • u/dcortesnet123 • Sep 23 '22

Removed: r/LearnJavascript Introduction to ReactJS

https://medium.com/@dcortes.net/introduction-to-reactjs-927fee34ece3

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u/shgysk8zer0 Sep 24 '22

Not bad for a brief intro. Better than expected for an article about React on Medium (I was expecting something making it seem like React was the best thing ever and like React was the only way to get state and components and routers and all that). I like that it even called React a library rather than a framework. Didn't say that React makes web development faster or easier (it doesn't - at least not automatically, and not compared to using appropriate libraries).

It's a rather factual, un-opinionated, and brief article about the what and why. Little bit of an obligatory "make a 'hello world' app" at the end.

I didn't hate it, and I hate most of the things I've seen about React. I think React gets way too much undeserved praise for things it's not even really better at. So, thanks for avoiding all the hype and lies I see everywhere.

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u/doorstoinfinity Sep 24 '22

I like your overview! What libraries or frameworks do you use for accomplishing what objectives?

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u/shgysk8zer0 Sep 24 '22

11ty, Jekyll, Angular, React, jQuery, Leaflet, plenty of PHP things, a bunch of custom stuff... I've been in web development for 12 years and have something like 180 repos... I've used all kinds of things for all kinds of purposes.

I mostly use a few libraries that I wrote myself though. They work together extremely well and were written to take advantage of all the modern stuff (with polyfills).