It’s 2024, and you are about to start a new project. Do you reach for React, a framework you know and love or do you look at one of the other hot new frameworks like Astro, Enhance, 11ty, SvelteKit or gasp, plain vanilla Web Components?. Tagged with react, webdev, webcomponents.

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React has undergone many changes and developers are voicing their displeasure. It is suggested to consider alternatives to React, explore adding web components to existing React applications, and focus on learning web fundamentals.

Removing React is just weakness leaving your codebase

Why do people always need other people to jump on their bandwagon? There’s something about it that always rings false. Are you trying to get people to follow you? Do you want people to convince you not to leave? Why not just leave silently and do what works best for you?
Use React, or don’t. Who cares?

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By my reckoning, if you’ve maintained a React codebase for the past decade, you’ve re-written your application at least three times and possibly four.
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I’m actually not rewriting my projects every time a new feature comes out.