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> upgrading it is painless as long as you don’t ignore deprecation warnings

Maybe if you have a small app. React is as bad as going from angular to angular 2

Yeah I'm just going to choose to not take you seriously if you claim that any React version bump is as bad as moving to a completely new framework (which is effectively what angular 1->2 was).

You just can't migrate with React too. The dependencies are always in the middle of a major refactoring that is released for the new react version so you need to change all code. This happens too often for too many packages

> Maybe if you have a small app. React is as bad as going from angular to angular 2

You have no idea what you are talking about.

lol having worked through 3 large projects going from 0.14 to 15 - pain.

15 to 16 - pain.

16 to 17 - pain.

If you disagree you haven’t worked on anything even slightly complex.

Thankfully I’m on my 2nd project of ripping react out for htmx. The last one was a huge success. No doubt this one will be too.

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