You might be interested in this! 🙂

[mithi]

Hi @r002 !

I don't know if you remember me, but you submitted a pull request in my repo mithi/epic-react-exercises. We had chats about different coding philosophies and ideas about separation of concerns and typescript..
I didn't know how to contact you, so I'm just submitting an issue here. 😅
I'm writing because I wrote something that you might be interested in, it's a short document where I gather my thoughts about writing good React code. I hope you like it, and if you have any comments, suggestions or violent reactions, don't hesitate to tell me. Thanks!

https://github.com/mithi/react-philosophies

[r002]

Hi @mithi! Of course I remember you! Your repo was the first public PR I ever committed to so of course you'll always have a special place in my heart! 🙂 Since then, I went on an open source streak committing to other projects from all over but with Mithi's Epic React Exercises was how it all began! 🥳

This react-philosophies document looks amazing though! I read it quickly just now and am a big fan of everything I saw so far. Especially the part about "the best code is no code!" 😄 This weekend I'll look it over more thoroughly and let you know more detailed thoughts though! Thanks for putting this together-- you make the world and web a better place!!

Hope you're having a most wonderful day! 🎉🚀

[mithi]

Thanks @r002 🙂

[r002]

Hi @mithi! Sorry for the delay. But I finally just got time to properly review your react-philosophies document today. It's a great writeup and I really think you did a terrific job! 👍 In all honesty, I'm more of a hobbyist coder these days and enjoy just perusing the tech landscape just to (well, try at least) "stay in the know". Honestly, the JS space has exploded so ridiculously and I have a ton of trouble following it all.

Reading your doc really got me to thinking about a larger question though and I'm curious about your thoughts: Do you think react is passé nowadays? I know it's still super-popular but from my experience using it (again, not professionally or thoroughly, to be completely fair), but I really disliked it once I started using it on larger projects. For example, I agree with you idea of co-locating state and keeping state as close to the component actually using it as possible. But in my experience, whenever I added features to my website, I often found myself having to move state around which was just a huge pain. Maybe I'm going it wrong but have you seen the Richard Harris talk on Svelte? I loved his points and Svelte is the framework I'm looking at diving into next. Any thoughts?

[mithi]

yes I love svelte! however svelte is not yet that mature.. the community is very small compared to React and not a lot of companies are using svelte in production for complex applications yet! i havent use svelte outside of hobby toy projects to i dont know yet if it’s hard to create complex interactive applications with it. I’m not sure if there are some features that you can implement in React that is not so easy to implement in Svelte.. Im using react because professionally because that’s what the market demands (there are many jobs ) and the react ecosystem is also great (there are many well maintained libraries and tools with great developer experience and API which you can confidently use for specific needs, no need to implement components from scratch!) I believe React isnt going away any time soon because there are a lot of very large complex applications that are built in React and I dont think it’s just that easy to rewrite them is svete 😉 I’m not particularly attached to any framework or technologies when it comes to the front end. I’m just interested in building maintainable user interfaces with amazing user experiences. So bottomline, i’ll use whatever gets the job done. :) I’m willing to jump ship anytime 😉

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On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 5:03 AM Robert Lin ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @mithi <https://github.com/mithi>! Sorry for the delay. But I finally just got time to properly review your react-philosophies document today. It's a great writeup and I really think you did a terrific job! 👍 In all honesty, I'm more of a hobbyist coder these days and enjoy just perusing the tech landscape just to (well, try at least) "stay in the know". Honestly, the JS space has exploded so ridiculously and I have a ton of trouble following it all. Reading your doc really got me to thinking about a larger question though and I'm curious about your thoughts: Do you think react is passé nowadays? I know it's still super-popular but from my experience using it (again, not professionally or thoroughly, to be completely fair), but I really disliked it once I started using it on larger projects. For example, I agree with you idea of co-locating state and keeping state as close to the component actually using it as possible. But in my experience, whenever I added features to my website, I often found myself having to move state around which was just a huge pain. Maybe I'm going it wrong but have you seen the Richard Harris talk on Svelte <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao>? I loved his points and Svelte is the framework I'm looking at diving into next. Any thoughts? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#50 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAMX2FM2ETPHP54IW6BAAUDUFS2TNANCNFSM5EY32GVQ> .