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
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@slightlyoff Thanks for writing this. I really liked the breakdown of different product domains and their relationships to SPA/SSR apps.
Nov 30, 2024 at 11:52pmWeb
Show threadAlex RussellDec 1, 2024
@bmac Reviewers mentioned it as a shortcoming in drafts, so all thanks to them for getting me to flesh those out, particularly @ksylor.