Introducing react.dev
Well, bummer. I have a mature product using React Components which are now legacy. It looks like in the future, I'll slowly migrate these over to functional components, as is standard in the documentation.I'm disappointed by the fanatical adoption of hooks, but I saw it coming and I can't say their legacy documentation didn't warn me.I'm happy that other people seem to enjoy them without restraint, but obscuring magical details and making side effects seem like more of a big deal than they really are in programming seems like a design choice intended to infantilize engineers and shelter them from reality.I might finally invest some time into what it looks like to create front ends independent of any of the existing frameworks that exist today, which I think is probably controversial, but I want the decisions I make to last longer than the whimsy of engineering teams who don't care that they might change their mind in 10 years.I think having seen front-end software come and go so many times, I'd rather write some simple utility functions wrapping `Document.createElement()` and use native event handling.Too much fluff in front-end.I want the decisions I make to last decades, not just a few years. I don't think that's a sentiment appreciated by most, though.