Create React App is awesome, but can't shake the feeling the foundation is thousands of brittle packages with incredibly complex configuration (especially all the babel and webpack extensions)
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Speed comes from mastery. Smaller systems get faster faster because mastering them is easier. Bigger systems require full teams and org-level discipline to manage. All modern frontend starter-kits, but *particularly* CRA, advertise as the first but saddle you with the second.
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The sin of these stacks isn't that they can't work -- they can be one helpful input into a complex and intentional digestive process (usually a bakeoff to learn what's what). The sin is that the folks pitching them knew better and told no one. Weaponised info asymmetry.
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Rule #1: never eject
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This made me chuckle! It's too true. I do the same.
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