I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.
Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:
@slightlyoff I’m eager to dig into your post soon. I run a large React meetup in Dallas, and I keep mentioning to the members that I’m mentally gearing up for a talk titled something like “Why You Shouldn’t Use React”. Might be my last event as the organizer for that crew, though. 😝
@drumsensei Honestly, we need people to support folks through the transition away. It's going to operate as these things usually do: permission structures to make change possible based on past affiliations. So you can outsource the pyrotechnics to someone like me and help folks in the aftermath. They will need it.
