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tacticusyesterday at 3:28 AM1 replyview on HN

Was react ever about progress?


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nine_kyesterday at 6:58 AM

If you valued your sanity when developing complex Web UIs, React was a lifesaver.

DOM sucks though, it's slow, it's heavyweight, it lacks transactions. We're stuck with it, and frameworks like React have to do the DOM diffing + patching thing, explicitly, in JS.

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