React vs Backbone: Minimal Progress in Web Development Over 15 Years
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mjsu
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Summary
The article compares React and Backbone frameworks through a password strength app example, arguing that despite React's cleaner appearance and modern ecosystem, the actual progress in web development over 15 years is minimal. The author suggests React's simplicity is an illusion that comes with hidden complexity costs, and that both frameworks ultimately achieve similar results with comparable code length.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThe interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.
React looks cleaner. It reads better at first glance. But that readability comes at a cost: you're tr
Look at the two implementations above. The code is roughly the same length. They do exactly the same thing.
One was written with a framework from 2010, the other with a framework that's had countless developer hours and a massive ecosystem behind it for over a decade.
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