Alex RussellNov 30, 2024

I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.

Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

If Not React, Then What?

Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.

Alex Russell
Show threadnickchomeyNov 30, 2024

@slightlyoff The link here for MPA view transitions is wrong (its the same as the one just above it)

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/#:~:text=With%20the%20advent%20of%20multi%2Dpage%20view%20transitions%2C%20MPA%20architecture%20PWAs

If Not React, Then What?

Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.

Alex Russell
Show threadAlex Russell
@nickchomey Cheers, will fix!
Nov 30, 2024 at 8:07amWeb
Show threadnickchomeyNov 30, 2024

@slightlyoff Also, the link to the Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit essay seems to be dead. Here's one that hopefully will live longer

https://archive.org/details/on-bullshit-by-harry-frankfurt

On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt : Harry Frankfurt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A treatise on rhetorical bullshit.

Internet Archive
Show threadAlex RussellNov 30, 2024
@nickchomey Oh, weird. Thanks!