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socalgal2 • yesterday at 9:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

You could walk through the framework so you then understand it. There are several "let's create react from scratch" articles

https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/

Certain frameworks were so useful they arguably caused an explosion the productivity. Rails seems like one. React might be too.

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yellowapple • yesterday at 10:15 PM

Thanks to that page letting me see how many dozens of lines of code React needs to do the equivalent of

    const element = document.createElement("h1");
    element.innerHTML = "Hello";
    element.setAttribute("title", "foo");
    const container = document.getElementById("root");
    container.appendChild(element);
I now have even less interest in ever touching a React codebase, and will henceforth consider the usage of React a code smell at best.
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