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 threadMike MathewNov 30, 2024
@slightlyoff I’m eager to dig into your post soon. I run a large React meetup in Dallas, and I keep mentioning to the members that I’m mentally gearing up for a talk titled something like “Why You Shouldn’t Use React”. Might be my last event as the organizer for that crew, though. 😝
Show threadAlex Russell
@drumsensei Honestly, we need people to support folks through the transition away. It's going to operate as these things usually do: permission structures to make change possible based on past affiliations. So you can outsource the pyrotechnics to someone like me and help folks in the aftermath. They will need it.
Dec 1, 2024 at 12:18amWeb