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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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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The incentives are plain: if they were to tell you up-front what they really cost, they would be less attractive. So the entire industry furiously externalises costs to others, disproportionately impacting those who can least afford to pay.
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