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446 points talboren | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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. gloosx ◴[28 Aug 25 10:12 UTC] No.45050401[source]▶
On my machine Slack is taking 100MB of memory and 0.1% CPU to do nothing. Maybe we are using different Slack or one of us is lying about the "doing nothing" thing.

It's possible I'm wrong about bandcamp using react but your guess is far from reality as well – react itself does not prevent or discourage loading pages very quickly.