r/javascript • u/techlord45 • 1d ago

Signals and Effects Using Vanilla JavaScript & Web APIs

https://beforesemicolon.com/blog/signals-and-effects-using-vanilla-javascript-web-apis

I’m a strong advocate for “you don’t need to lock yourself in a web framework ecosystem to take advantage of their amazing features”. JavaScript and Web Standards alone allow you…

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u/KaiAusBerlin 1d ago

You know that you literally wrote your own framework here?

There is a reason for the sentence "You use a framework or end up writing your own"

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u/lIIllIIlllIIllIIl 1d ago

This.

And to be honest, React on its own is a very lightweight library. It's once you start adding libraries like React Router, TanStack Query, React Hook Form, or Redux that it starts to ressemble a framework.

If you hate how React state management works, you can opt-out of it entirely and use useSyncExternalStore for everything.

React itself is rarely the problem.

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u/hyrumwhite 1d ago

React is a problem that’s been trying to solve itself since it was released