Somewhat kinda sorta related. I have been working in React for the past 7ish years or so. I decided to try Svelte/Kit for my last project that I have been working on for a year and a half. I liked it, but didn’t think much of it.
That was until I joined a new company a few months ago that was building a NextJS app. It was amazing how overly complicated all the app code seemed to do relatively simple things. Comparing readability to my Svelte code was like me trying to read hieroglyphics.
React was amazing for complex web apps coming from JQuery. But there are other more modern and much simpler and ergonomic frameworks that have built on and learned from the past decade of React development.
Seems like the industry has a bit of Stockholm syndrome thanks to the amazing ecosystem React has…which no other front end framework comes close to IMO.
That was until I joined a new company a few months ago that was building a NextJS app. It was amazing how overly complicated all the app code seemed to do relatively simple things. Comparing readability to my Svelte code was like me trying to read hieroglyphics.
React was amazing for complex web apps coming from JQuery. But there are other more modern and much simpler and ergonomic frameworks that have built on and learned from the past decade of React development.
Seems like the industry has a bit of Stockholm syndrome thanks to the amazing ecosystem React has…which no other front end framework comes close to IMO.