React is gross. But it's kinda cool that they made it - so that people could learn from it and borg it's best parts into things like Ember bright side?. But we don't use it - and don't plan on using it. Anyone who (doesn't teach React for a living) and uses it for a few years comes to the same conclusions. It's a learning process. React is just wrong.
It really sucks that all of new developers are already addicted to Netlify and Gatsby. They can't do anything without it. I tutor people all the time just out of a "React bootcamp" who can't write the HTML and CSS for a simple portfolio site. They learned JSX and non of the things that really matter about markup, styles, functionality, or MVC concepts etc. And now even WordPress's stupid Gutenberg blocks are written with React (and yeah - inaccessible ) even causing some notable people to quit their jobs at WP because it's so bad.
SPA's (apps) have their purposes. Google Docs isn't just a "webpage" - and so, you gotta know when to use what stuff... for what reason... but - not sure when React would ever be that choice.
It's fine. It does what it does well. But - it's a little bit of a black box. The whole JAMstack - is a marketing idea. It's nothing new. But - the problems we're seeing is that people go to boot camps / or learn in tutorials --- and then come to us thinking they are a 'pro' dev... and they can't write basic HTML. The idea of having pre-rendered pages and they hydrating parts of those pages with dynamic data is great! Great idea! So, why do we need to create a system all tangled up in command-line tools and React? People think that every website can be like Dev.to - and that it can just all be created with # markdown - and that I'll only be used by developers - and that's not true. I think that Netlify is doing some cool stuff. They've chosen the right spokespeople... but the way people are using it - seems to be stunting them - instead of helping them.
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React is gross. But it's kinda cool that they made it - so that people could learn from it and borg it's best parts into things like Ember bright side?. But we don't use it - and don't plan on using it. Anyone who (doesn't teach React for a living) and uses it for a few years comes to the same conclusions. It's a learning process. React is just wrong.
It really sucks that all of new developers are already addicted to Netlify and Gatsby. They can't do anything without it. I tutor people all the time just out of a "React bootcamp" who can't write the HTML and CSS for a simple portfolio site. They learned JSX and non of the things that really matter about markup, styles, functionality, or MVC concepts etc. And now even WordPress's stupid Gutenberg blocks are written with React (and yeah - inaccessible ) even causing some notable people to quit their jobs at WP because it's so bad.
SPA's (apps) have their purposes. Google Docs isn't just a "webpage" - and so, you gotta know when to use what stuff... for what reason... but - not sure when React would ever be that choice.
What's your opinion on Netlify?
It's fine. It does what it does well. But - it's a little bit of a black box. The whole JAMstack - is a marketing idea. It's nothing new. But - the problems we're seeing is that people go to boot camps / or learn in tutorials --- and then come to us thinking they are a 'pro' dev... and they can't write basic HTML. The idea of having pre-rendered pages and they hydrating parts of those pages with dynamic data is great! Great idea! So, why do we need to create a system all tangled up in command-line tools and React? People think that every website can be like Dev.to - and that it can just all be created with
# markdown- and that I'll only be used by developers - and that's not true. I think that Netlify is doing some cool stuff. They've chosen the right spokespeople... but the way people are using it - seems to be stunting them - instead of helping them.