Quoting React is Insane

Mario has a great blog post about the history of the web libraries and frameworks and how complex thing are right now. While it ends up focusing on how “not simple” React ended up being, it’s more a commentary of how building web apps is so challenging.

My answer to that question, surprisingly, stops roasting React and goes the opposite way, defending not only React, but also Angular and jQuery and everything that came before them. I think this code is bad because making a interactive UI where any component can update any other component is simply one of the most complicated things you could do in software. … So, this entire rant about React… it’s not even React’s fault. Neither is Angular’s, or jQuery’s. Simply, whichever tech you choose will inevitably crumble down under the impossible complexity of building a reactive UI.

Great long read that brought back so many fond memories about jQuery and Angular 1. But not Angular 2, I will never forgive what they did to it.