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> I’m still waiting for every other framework to realize that jQuery was right all along.

I find myself feeling this way a lot while writing front-end code.

While I am primarily a back-end developer by trade, I find myself working in Vue or React quite often just to get things done and regularly come to the realization that the majority of the reactivity in the projects I am working on is either unnecessary or so simple that it would be handled with less complexity as a line or two of jQuery.

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Thats similar to me as a frontend dev seeing all the backend complexity and thinking it would be easier just to read and write a json file instead of a db + apis.

It works but on longer projects where requirements can explode in complexity it becomes a problem. It really helps to have tools that can stay maintainable.

That comparison works against your point quite well because there are an absolutely incredible amount of backend services built with scalability and sharded postgres dbs with redis caching or what-have-you that would have been perfectly served by a perl script and an sqlite file.

Yeah, sure. It's pure joy of mantainability and dependencies.

Just watch out for that dust, if you sneeze next to a 5 year old Node.js/React project, the whole thing falls apart.

We sometimes have to step back from our high tech bubble. Check out jQuery's usage on the web. The unbeatable juggernaut that React seems from up here clocks at under 5% market share. It's sobering.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library

There might be a long tail phenomenon at play here. Do you have stats on number of developers using the tech or on page views for each framework?

Regarding page views, from a quick search, the only top 10 sites that use React are from Meta.

So it’s either a strange distribution curve, with a bump in the neck and a colossal tail, or we’re trapped in a bubble and blinded by our own crazy reality distortion field.

As to number of developers, if a lot more of us are needed to write a tiny fraction of the pages, maybe that’s the symptom right there.

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