is react overhyped?

my honest reaction: 🫨

It's good if you are facebook or a likesize company. I'm convinced the only reason so many people want to use it is to bump their resume to get into such a company. Because it's honestly crap for most people.

Actually heard people refuse to use something else "because it wouldn't help their resume". Like lmao. LMAO. Boy-o you better hope I'm not in charge of hiring I'm cutting all the React devs out with a hot knife from the selection process.

I don't use it for web, but I do use react native and it's a godsend.

A little bit.

I never wanted to get into react because I'm a real benchmark-nazi and it's performance sucks ass. So i sticked with vue for a very long time.

But I got into it more and more because job. And I gotta say, it's quite nice. The whole function thing of it all has a charm to me. The types are fucking weird sometimes but as they aren't native.. what to expect.

It's overhyped, yes. But a fair share of its hype is justified.

@kobenz Apparently so, by Next.js fanboys.

And then HTMX for server-side rendering comes in and says: "Hold my beer." One hype that we can seriously justify today, after years of inferiority to HATEAOS.

Not "HTMX for SSR", but "HTMX and SSR". Pardon, my mistake.