Why I Think React Is Junk, Part III
Shoddy Examples Creates Shoddy Coders!
In our last round I had stated softening a bit in my attitude towards React in that I could understand how people could be suckered into using it. This mostly stems from most of those diving for solutions like it not knowing enough to even form a rational opinion about it.
As I said there is merit to the idea that as someone who freelances fixing broken sites I only see React and other such frameworks on their worst day, but that fails to explain why the examples for it are such incompetent trash. Now, I say things like that and we’ll always have folks coming out of the woodwork with the same lame excuses:
- They’re just examples, you don’t have to write bad code with it.
- Your idea of leaner code won’t scale to larger projects
- You don’t understand the collaboration side of working with a team and how it creates a uniform work environment
Etc, etc, etc… and such statements ALWAYS boil down to nothing more than ad-hominem to try and discredit the opinion due to a lack of valid and rational counterpoints.
The first of these alleged counterpoints has the least legs to stand on. When you create examples for any project you should be bringing your “A” game for one simple reason:
Those just learning your system and/or blindly copying your examples have nothing else to…
