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446 points talboren | 1 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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TheDong ◴[28 Aug 25 08:22 UTC] No.45049771[source]▶
Slack on my machine is currently taking ~1GiB of memory and 3% cpu to do nothing.

My irc client is taking 60MiB of memory and 0.01% cpu. My IRC client is responsive and faster, it has more configurable notification settings. I like the irc client more.

> Bandcamp

I just went to the bandcamp page and it indeed loaded very quickly. As far as I can tell, there's no react in use anywhere so I guess that's why.

What do you mean by bandcamp using react?

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1. guappa ◴[28 Aug 25 09:17 UTC] No.45050097{3}[source]▶
I use localslackirc, so I can be on battery rather long.