I really like React. I write a lot of it. But I was introducing my gf to react and had her read the documentation, cause that’s how I learned. First, it’s really easy to ignore the beta docs and end up learning class components. She wasn’t happy when I explained to her that what she had just learned is pretty out of date and not at all what the ecosystem uses. Second, there’s no simple explanation of forms! Oh sure it’s buried in the long intro tutorial but I’d love a one page tutorial on forms in react.<p>Also linting rules got way out of hand. Like a bunch of devs in the mid 10’s really decided to make linting the most annoying bunch of nitpicks around const, parameter naming, and other stuff that has no value. There’s a lint rule about naming the error parameter in catch “error”, not “err” or “e”. Who cares about this shit???
These days for me React === Next.<p>I wonder if Vercel will take over React at some point as they seem to be capable of GSD very rapidly with a great hit rate. It sometimes feels like any improvements these days in the React ecosystem are because of improvements to Next or improvements to key libraries like react-query/tan-query.
> Less venture capital backed open source<p>> We all love free open source software. But when VCs get involved, it means they
> expect a huge monetary return. These things just don’t go together.<p>I am not sure what case study the author is thinking of that they are so hostile to the idea of cash flowing into OSS ?<p>I would like to see more money flowing toward open source creators and maintainers. It's terrible that companies use the OSS that's built on the backs of people that do not receive remuneration for their efforts.<p>PS: I really like the design and speed of the author's website. Inspired me to pickup Astro for next project.
I want a programmatic bundler/library that lets me write some kind of bundle.ts file to do the things I need, nothing more. I hate the JS ecosystems reliance on DSLs and JSON config files, give me low level tooling.