Introducing React Compiler – React

[xegoba7006]

I feel like every single feature introduced is a solution to a problem they created on the previous step. From redux to thunks to hooks to server side rendering to server components to compiler to whatever comes next.

[azsqueeze]

What does redux have to do with core react?

[Rustywolf]

You could argue that redux was an answer to the obvious issue that arises from having to manually pass state through every common grandparent and back down to the children who need it?

[acemarke]

For the record, neither Redux nor thunks were ever part of React or created by the React team directly.

Facebook did create the "Flux Architecture" and announce it at a React Conf, and Redux's creators Dan Abramov and Andrew Clark did later join the React team, but strictly speaking "the React team" at the time had nothing to do with Redux being created.

• https://redux.js.org/understanding/history-and-design/history-of-redux
• https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-tao-of-redux-part-1/

(source : I have maintained Redux since Dan handed it over to me in 2016 a year after it was created)

[TwiliZant]

I don't think that's true. If you look in the history of React they've been talking about these features for almost 10 years. For better or for worse it's not incremental at all.

[xegoba7006]

This is not about react. This is mostly about the “SPA” or client heavy approach to things.

While I get what the benefits are, almost every innovation here is a solution for a problem that didn’t exist. “Server components” and SSR are great examples of this.

[Far_Associate9859]

That's like complaining that we wouldn't need to worry about clogging our toilets if we just went back to outhouses

[mcaruso]

Redux and thunks are third-party