React 16.x Roadmap

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52 points·sophiebits··3 comments

I'm happy about this roadmap and thankful to everything the React team has done.

I would love if MobX's computed-value expressions would become more natively integrated into React (or better yet into JavaScript itself). As a quickfix, it would be great if it were possible to use MobX with decorator syntax in create-react-app without ejecting, because MobX without decorator syntax gets a bit unwieldy.

I wonder if I'm the only one feeling that React is moving further away from its original conceptual simplicity and elegance - so much so that I'm not excited (or motivated) to keep up with these new features. I've already put in the time to figure out an optimal (for me) full-stack setup using only its core features, so don't feel the need for context, hooks or suspense. I can understand that these might not be possible as extensions or middlewares outside of the core library, but the added complexity is something I'm not interesting in chasing. Sadly the ship has sailed, so I suppose I have to accept that I'll slowly lose touch with the latest in React development trends.

Edit: Reason might be the way forward. https://reasonml.github.io/

This is definitely something we try to be aware of as we make changes. The elegant simplicity is what drew most of us to React in the first place.

However we have found over the years that following that simple model leads to more complicated application code and some problems are hard to solve. So we're trying to address them. React itself is getting a little more complicated, but our hope is that it makes your apps overall simpler and with fewer quirks to learn to make a full-featured app.

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