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React doesn’t include enough out of the box, and the lack of any official sanctioned recommendations increases ecosystem fragmentation and actively harms the ecosystem.
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Disagree. The bustling innovation in the ecosystem is part of what makes React so successful, and that would not have been possible with an official way to do everything. Plus the obvious bandwidth argument.
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There are also parts of the ecosystem that are just bad because people aren't clustering around a single solution and improving it. Aggregation generally makes something better than any of the separate solutions.
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Ecosystem fragmentation allow to use React from helloWorld or landing page to an enterprise dashboard. This is what make great React. We have already enough monolite frameworks. Take care of React as the best UI rendering lib first. ecosystem is secondary.
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I'm not sure I follow. Ember, Angular, Vue and friends all have wide scale adoption despite being fairly opinionated and monolithic frameworks. You seem to be arguing React wouldn't be as useful or used, when all prior art doesn't agree with you?
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I started favoring React over Angular because it felt like I was still doing JS above anything else, and the skills I would acquire wouldn't be lost when the new framework hotness arrives.
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But hey, I'm also a fan of the original Unix philosophy of doing one thing extremely well, so that's another factor
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There's a place for opinionated frameworks to be built on top of React. The React team is able to solve really hard problems because they aren't building an engine underneath a huge opinionated API. They can focus on just the engine.
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I think this is where it's at. React can be used for the baseline, then frameworks build on top of that. For those who don't like larger frameworks, there's still the option to just use React like now. For those who do, they can use things like Next or Gatsby
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The power to choose what I need for deps in a specific project is one of the main reasons I like React. You need a dependency a year down the road, you add it when it’s necessary. There are definitely pros and cons to both sides, but different projects have different needs.
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This is my biggest problem with React by far. Nothing comes even close to this problem. Moving from one React project to another means learning a new stack almost every time. It destroys your productivity. :-(
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