On: React is holding me hostage

[creamyhorror]

I'm not seeing React being used, though, just TSX/JSX? All the view and state updating is being done manually, but it looks fairly well-organised. There are small optimisations like debouncing onInput with a timeout (avoiding rapid re-rendering/reacting to every character typed): https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/blob/master/webapp/Clie...

Is this really much more complicated to implement than the equivalent implementation in React? (It's probably a bit more responsive, at least.)

[ojkelly → creamyhorror]

I think they’re referring to how Reacts mental model is to wipe the page and rerender. The earliest versions basically did that, and then they started diffing and applying the diff.

[creamyhorror → ojkelly]

They're referring to a specific bit of code in that Eureka repo that sets innerHtml = "" and then does .appendChild(). They just apparently didn't notice that the code doesn't use React at all (and is meant to demonstrate the use of vanilla modern JS without React).

[ojkelly → creamyhorror]

Yep that’s what I was alluding to as well. I’m pretty sure they noticed it wasn’t using react.

The comment was a reference to the fact that if you don’t use a framework, you’ll end up a building one anyway.