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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
WHY was it so uncritically accepted? JSX + weekend projects.
The promise of not having to think about how data and UI interact over time, wrapped in nice-looking forks of HTML and JS syntax, meant that the 1-10 hour project got "simpler" (assuming you ignore the hundreds of MB of NPM crap lugged in tow). Nevermind that serious teams were reliably finding themselves neck-deep in perf remediation quicksand almost as soon React got popular.
So the lie curdled: you weren't holding it right.