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Comment by bdorn | Hacker News Reader

I'm not following - even manually inserting script tags to mount the component is better than relying on another site like this to bundle it.

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As said below, most common react libraries will fail if you try to just use ReactDOM. Mounting has many issues if you try it for more than the basic hello world.

Not to mention you can use multiple different versions of react with this.

Just as an example, I was trying to add this simple PinField to my wordpress page and it will break if you try to mount: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-pin-field

> most common react libraries will fail if you try to just use ReactDOM

I'd think that would be a pretty big sign that React might not be the right tool for the job. I'm all for building custom hammers but sometimes it might just be better to just grab a screwdriver.

Also, you can just download the bundle if you want to stop using the site to host it. Personally I make enough edits I like to keep it up.

My comment wasn't a critique on your product. I can totally see how this could be handy and I'll keep it bookmarked. I was mostly critiquing that web devs nowadays always seem to try and reach out for some React package whenever they hit any sort of problem. I can see that the React packages are mandatory, any plans to support other frameworks?

Vue would be pretty easy. From personal experience it’s mostly react that’s has all these open source things someone might want. Was there one you were thinking of?

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