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0 pointsjcgl3mo ago0 comments

Yeah, as a solo dev quite new to frontend, that made me nope out of React almost immediately. Having to choose a bunch of critically important third-party dependencies right out of the gate? With how much of a mess frontend deps seem to be in general? No thanks.

I settled on Svelte with SvelteKit. Other than stumbling block that was the Svelte 4 -> 5 transition, it's been smooth sailing. Like I said, I'm new here in the frontend world and don't have much to judge by. But it's been such a relief to have most things simply included out of the box.

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Tade03mo ago

I've been doing frontend since 2012 and I still don't understand why React became so popular.

No two React projects are the same. Like, even the router has at least three different mainstream options to choose from. It's exhausting.

realusername3mo ago

Even when it's the same router package, these things break backward compatibility so often that different versions of the same package will behave differently

jcglOP3mo ago

That router thing seems crazy. I'm all for having options that are available. But not having, at the minimum, some blessed implementations for basic stuff like routers seems nuts. There is so much ecosystem power in having high-quality, blessed implementations of things. I'm coming from working primarily in Go, where you can use the stdlib for >80% of everything you do (ymmv), so I feel this difference very keenly.

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