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📣 Existenceblinks

Is there any consultancy that helps get rid of React?


I mean purposely. A lot of huge pain in projects that are using React. If you are the ones, what's your alternative solution that won't cause business big trouble? I know SolidJS is similar enough, that would be a smooth transition. I have a feeling that everyone knows how bad React is but they can't quit because of all the non-technical reasons. Is there a way out to "React only for day job" disease?

  👤 Ambolia Accepted Answer ✓
As discussed extensively in this thread: >https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34796277

I would say what is bad is all GUI or application development over the web. React solves some problems of application development and introduces others. If you are really annoyed by the problems introduced by React and want a new platform that doesn't have those problems, that's fine, go for it. But be clear that the web is a broken environment for application development all the way down and there's no silver bullet. You will find problems in whichever stack you choose. Analyze clearly what trade-offs you are making and don't think that everything was fine until React arrived, React was created to address certain issues.

Those problems may have been partially addressed by new web-standards, but not all have been addressed, and those web-standards have not been battle-tested hard enough to decide if the solutions are good enough.

👤 logicalmonster
I don't know if there's a consultancy that specializes in migrating teams away from React, but I'd just like to say that I absolutely despise that React has sort of become the industry standard from so many companies without even a partial investigation into the alternatives.

React isn't particularly fast.

React isn't particularly organized well.

React isn't particularly pleasant or motivating to work in.

Companies that look into some of the great alternatives will run circles around their slower and dumber competitors.

👤 ravagat
Commenting just to see if there are any consultancies successfully marketing themselves as getting rid of React.

I think there are just not actively marketing as such.

👤 kbrannigan
I worked on bloat reduction project. For example a data table with sorting and filtering can be a plain html table with some j query and fancy css.

Or 10x more lines of code with JSX, Redux, Services, Axios calls, data models duplicating server Data models, ViewModels because why not.

All that to display a list of vendors.

👤 ag_user123
It's native to think that migrating from React to SolidJS will solve your issues.