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Discussion on: It is ⌚time to ditch ReactJS or Angular and use better web standards like web components😍 part 1

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Paul Henschel • Edited

view=function(state) is a paradigm, which is what matters. Paradigms don't change often, controller based mvc just had a decade.

Standards don't fall out of the blue sky. React was initially a great idea that has practically brought about a paradigm shift. It has been influenced by millions of developers world wide putting it to use. And it has proven to be flexible enough to adapt and renew itself, which is the hardest feat.

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Michael "lampe" Lazarski

Since browser vendors are implementing these specs and you don't longer trust these standards.

The only conclusion I see right now and please correct me if I'm wrong. You will work against these standards? Or what is the conclusion here?

Or should we fragment more and we will be the next "year of the Linux desktop"?

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Paul Henschel • Edited

Browser vendors have implemented scores of useless features that were later abandoned (object observe, etc). That is why they have made the extensible web manifesto, which was supposed to prevent this from happening by explicitly focussing on the low level. WC, once again, break that ideal. It isn't about trust, it is about merit, no one is foolish enough any longer to just blindly go along with features that have no merit. The web is mature enough to let certain things develop outside of the spec body's grasp - the high level, component abstracts etc is something that should never be set in stone as it needs to adapt to the ever increasing requirements. If web components can't even fulfil requirements we had 10 years ago, not to mention todays, how are they going to adapt to the future?

Or should we fragment more and we will be the next "year of the Linux desktop"?

Do you realize that you are talking about web components? I've seen such articles for 10 years now with nothing to show for. Yet all the spec would cause, if it were adopted, is fragmentation since it relies on frameworks to drive the exposed root node. But since the proposed component definition is inherently flawed (imperative, mvc controlled, templates, embedded browsers on mobile and iot, all the things that we have finally put to rest), the fragmentation would be devastating. The spec simply does not solve our problems, and that's the reason it is withering away.

V=F(S) is a single, cross platform standard that actually works and has been accepted by the community at large. It is the first time that we can serve multiple platforms with the same components. It is also the first time that platform differences flatten out, web, mobile, native, ar, vr, everything can be targeted. It has done in a couple of years what the web couldn't do in 20. Yes, React, or rather the paradigm it has created, is more of a standard than the specs body could ever dream of, so what are we complaining about?

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Junk

Except Web Components are paving the cowpaths in a way a lot of abandoned standards don't. They also have a viable opportunities for allowing script-free extension of HTML. Since JavaScript is fragile and expensive, this is pretty critical. You'll notice that the standards the React team is collaborating on don't feature this paradigm. There's a reason for that.