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React is the new jQuery

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Did... did he really call React "minimalist"?! I'm not sure this guy has ever attempted to build any actual webapps with React, because that's certainly not a term that anyone would use that had.

I bet 10$ that he can not even do "hello world" in react.

You can probably use 90% of React's functionality with like, four or five functions and four or five component lifestyle methods. What's not minimal about that?

React by itself is nice, clean, minimilistic, et cetera.

Nobody uses React by itself. Add in ES6 transpiling, a data system (redux & friends), server side rendering, routing, and now it's complicated.

jQuery doesn't include any of that stuff, either.

like... you almost end up writing your own angular/aurelia/otherframework ;-)

> jQuery doesn't include any of that stuff, either.

That's a really important point. I still often use jQuery because I don't need 'any of that stuff' and for a bunch of different reasons (other developers, client already using jQuery, etc.).

But it's surprising how often these days my clients want/need stuff where jQuery would not be ideal and React can take care of it all.

I thought this was going to be a "jQuery is old, bad and React is going down the same path" post. Boy, was I wrong.

Well, if it's really the new jQuery, it will be loved by jQuery enthusiasts and hated by people who already hated jQuery :D

React is nice and it's on the right track, but it still has a ways to go before it takes jQuery's crown. JQuery is absurdly useful, it's downright silly how much you can get done with jQuery.

Agreed, even though I prefer using React as much as possible, I have to admit that there are times where, even on a React project, I am tempted to just use jQuery as well. Which is not a great idea.

What is this journal like post doing on hackers news? Not intellectually intriguing, it's just somebody's daily-journal?

I don't know much about react, but is it drop-in replacement for jQuery? I believe not

Having worked on a project recently where we chose jQuery (because it was already on the page and we didn't want to delay page load), what I missed about React was the luxury of re-rendering the view from state.

Doing so with jQuery blows away the DOM (causing inputs to lose focus), so we ended up with the usual jQuery soup referencing the DOM for state.

My rule of thumb is that React is a good solution for any site that needs something more complex than simple, slideshow-level js, or a site that more than one slideshow-level widget (slideshow + order basket, etc.).

Clickbait

Google trends and the job market say otherwise. React still has a long way to go to match jQuery. Plus it's just a view layer, hardly something compelling.

I wish you could downvote fluff pieces like this

You can certainly flag them.

why not vue.js :(

For me, it seems the author have just using reactjs and got loved with it. Just an emotional issue that will disappear fading out.

People normally get in love when they do some fancy dom manipulation with few lines of codes.

But experience shows different.

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