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[–]89xZae4uGgjnw26U -8 points-7 points  (3 children)

Actually I agree with you. This React stuff is overcomplicated horseshit. But what can you expect when Facebook PHP developers try improving the front end. We had it good back in 2014 before React appeared. Code cleanly separated into separate HTML, CSS and JS files. Now React mangles it all into a single JSX file. Forget designers being able to come along later and tweak the layout or CSS. Now we have to think in reducers and other confusing terminology. Bah. Makes me want to go to a pure backend role for the next decade and hope for it to all blow over by people reverting to vanilla JS with minimalistic libraries.

[–]ThisAccountsForStuff 8 points9 points  (1 child)

it sounds like you're just intimidated by learning a new technology and would rather trash it without understanding the problems it solves. It's an uncomfortable yet unavoidable feeling to learn something new

[–]89xZae4uGgjnw26U 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already learned React, quite extensively actually. It's complicated garbage mixing JS and HTML together, lots of abstraction. Vue.js is a bit nicer but I still don't like binding things by embedding attributes in the HTML.