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Andres Ausecha Mosquera • Edited

I have been React dev for around 3 years and many of these technologies have not been necessary for me, I suppose there's a lil bit of preference and bias but I understand it. To be honest only some are mandatory and the rest are nice-to-haves, so I would get rid of most items of the list and only choose: Hooks, Typescript, Router, Redux, CSS, Formik and Yup, but I would also add SASS instead of the other preprocessors and libraries for styles.

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leob

Why would you still go with SASS instead of the other styling approaches (which are probably more popular than SASS, for React projects)? Yeah and none of these technologies are necessary, you'd just pick the ones that make sense on a project by project basis ...

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Andres Ausecha Mosquera • Edited

Some technologies are actually absolutely necessary, and I would expect to find those that I mentioned in 90% of react projects. Regarding SASS, I consider you don't need styled components to resolve CSS class conflicts, SASS is much lighter and code is easier to maintain.

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leob

What do you mean by "SASS is 'lighter'", you mean in terms of Kb's/bundle size it generates? Regarding "easier to maintain", I think that the Styled Components fans will disagree.

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Akhil

Well it depends on person to person if someone is comfortable with some libs he must go with that one right and I totally agreed with you only some are mandatory and the rest are nice to have.