alt Hacker NewsIn my lived experience, shared components just become another problem. Especially in a fledgling company, the iteration velocity is actually negatively affected by shared libs because there's always overhead to (not) break legacy. so shared components bloat to address every evolving need.
And now with AI generated code i see so many wrapper patterns that forward endless props down, it's crazy!
TLDR: i almost always end up branching out into evergreen "reusable" components anyway.
Very unlikely the component library the CTO asked claude to DRY up the code with, is the one to rule them all.
FWIW, “colocation in component-based architecture” doesn’t necessarily mean shared code. It can just mean the one thing has all of its parts in one place, instead of having HTML in one file, CSS in another, JS in another.
You’re right about DRY and code reuse very often being a premiere (wrong) abstraction, which is usually more of a problem than a few copy/pastes, because premature wrong abstractions become entrenched and harder to displace.