The primary thing that React brought to the table over the technologies before it was declarative UI. I get to think about what I want the HTML to be, not how to make it so. Most everything else that has was mentioned in the article has to do with the overhead of the implementation (of React or the web itself).
I think that the ideas behind Svelte hold promise for a more minimal implementation of declarative UI. But in either case, our tooling for web dev is still a gigantic spaghetti mess.
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The primary thing that React brought to the table over the technologies before it was declarative UI. I get to think about what I want the HTML to be, not how to make it so. Most everything else that has was mentioned in the article has to do with the overhead of the implementation (of React or the web itself).
I think that the ideas behind Svelte hold promise for a more minimal implementation of declarative UI. But in either case, our tooling for web dev is still a gigantic spaghetti mess.