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446 points talboren | 4 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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adithyassekhar ◴[27 Aug 25 14:51 UTC] No.45040524[source]▶
This thread has really opened my eyes to how much the world hates react developers, I am one.

Unrealistic timelines, implementing what should be backend logic in frontend, there's a bunch of ways SPA's tend to be a trap. Was react a bad idea? Can anyone point to a single well made react app?

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gloosx ◴[27 Aug 25 15:55 UTC] No.45041374[source]▶
> a single well made react app

What about Slack, the messenger?

Umm, Discord? SoundCloud? Trello? Bandcamp? Spotify?

If I keep going there are actually hundreds and thousands of well-made react apps.

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1. sunaookami ◴[27 Aug 25 17:15 UTC] No.45042343[source]▶
Discord is well-known to be very buggy, e.g. the search function. Spotify is also very slow with thousands of placeholder skeletons. Remember that Spotify once had a very fast native player.
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2. fkyoureadthedoc ◴[27 Aug 25 17:51 UTC] No.45042751[source]▶
> Spotify is also very slow with thousands of placeholder skeletons. Remember that Spotify once had a very fast native player.

Are you under the impression that the placeholder skeletons are there and slow because of React? How would a UI written in C++ get the data quicker from the back end to replace the skeleton with?

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3. lmm ◴[28 Aug 25 06:18 UTC] No.45049023[source]▶
> Are you under the impression that the placeholder skeletons are there and slow because of React? How would a UI written in C++ get the data quicker from the back end to replace the skeleton with?

Regardless of how, the fact remains that the previous implementation of their UI did fetch and render the data from the backend significantly faster than the current React-based one does.

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4. anon7000 ◴[28 Aug 25 07:05 UTC] No.45049309{3}[source]▶
I’ve been using Spotify for 10+ years, and it’s DEFINITELY faster today than it was when I first used it.