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React Ruined Web Development

React solved real rendering problems — and catalysed JavaScript fatigue, ecosystem churn and an obsession with framework choice over engineering fundamentals.

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Last week I attended .debug, a developers conference, where my company held a booth. The idea was to have a “change my mind” kind of setup, where we represent a radical idea, invite people to debate with us, and show them that we’re building some interesting stuff at Productive.

The radical idea on our booth was “React ruined web development”. The post argues that React’s community fuelled fragmentation and “JavaScript fatigue”, and that we should redirect our attention from framework hype back to code quality, testing and refactoring.

This is an excerpt — the full article was published on Medium.