Things I wish I knew about state management when I started writing React apps
I'm one of those "old dogs" who don't quite get the advantage of using React in the majority of the cases it's used. This article didn't really help...<p>> What makes these frontends complex?
State management. The frontend “knows” a lot of things, and these things interact with each other in non-trivial ways [...] Example: dark mode support. For example, say your app has a dark mode. All your rendered components must know what theme is on, so they can render the UI in the right color.<p>Back in my day.... you'd slap a class on the <body> tag, and you'd have all you'd need for your CSS to style the rest of the page accordingly. How is using Redux an improvement here?<p>None of the examples of "complex" front-ends would be at all difficult in an old-school "just re-render the page" setup using something like pjax or turbolinks. And in my experience (seeing web pages with > 1MB js files) it'd be faster/more responsive for the end-user too.