I also really don't get the apparent hate for react, usually from people who haven't used it all that much.
I've interacted with a not insignificant number of people who seem to hold this opinion. Usually their arguments boil down to one of:
* Frontend engineering is always chasing the next shiny thing, and react is one of them. There's probably some truth to this historically, but react has been a thing since 2013, and pretty 'mainstream' since 2015 or so.
* Frameworks and libraries add 'complexity'. I almost never hear anything specific when I ask about what complexity they're referring to. IMO if you work on a non trivial application without a framework, you'll just end up inventing your own poorly maintained, poorly tested and poorly documented framework. This might be fine for a weekend project, but rarely something you should do at a company.
* People also often complain about the compilation/bundling step. This might've been harder to manage historically, but now with battle tested frameworks like expo, nextjs, meteor etc, there are very few reasons to write a webpack configuration or build pipeline by hand.
I've interacted with a not insignificant number of people who seem to hold this opinion. Usually their arguments boil down to one of:
* Frontend engineering is always chasing the next shiny thing, and react is one of them. There's probably some truth to this historically, but react has been a thing since 2013, and pretty 'mainstream' since 2015 or so.
* Frameworks and libraries add 'complexity'. I almost never hear anything specific when I ask about what complexity they're referring to. IMO if you work on a non trivial application without a framework, you'll just end up inventing your own poorly maintained, poorly tested and poorly documented framework. This might be fine for a weekend project, but rarely something you should do at a company.
* People also often complain about the compilation/bundling step. This might've been harder to manage historically, but now with battle tested frameworks like expo, nextjs, meteor etc, there are very few reasons to write a webpack configuration or build pipeline by hand.