Fuck react!

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Why make complex problems simple, if you can make simple problems complex. Why convey more accurately your ideas in a paragraph if you can just type out 3 pages of a mess.

If a form is complex for you in react, probably you don't know how to use react

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but sure, if you'd like to handle accessibility, validation, hints, warnings, and error messages on Custom Self Made Framework of Your Choice™, be my guest - your pain, not mine

Websites that re-download the entire page to send some data feel like a GUI calculator that exits with the answer as the status code.

@ostream I never said I was against client-side code. I use JS a lot. When I submit an invalid form, I don’t want the whole page to reload.

But that doesn’t mean I support rendering _everything_ on the client, including static HTML.

😂 That is so funny… I got a similar one of ”And that is how you deploy a service to your local kubernetes cluster”

I used Formik before, it was kinda ok-ish but still pain in the ass.

Now I use https://react-hook-form.com/ and will use it until something better comes along. Also works nice with yup validation - i think that's something that you can use in node/express, so you can share validation from backend with frontend.

Some dude wrote article on hook forms and yup, it is pretty simple. Best DX for forms in react that I found up to date.

https://dev.to/franciscomendes10866...

Also a big PRO: no unnecessary re-rendering

Im so fucking done with these technology... 95% of time i need to make forms

Livewire
Inertia
Alpine.js

Thats it

@John-Does I would throw away those too. Matter of fact, I did in my company

@kiki what fo you use for little reactivity then?

@John-Does nothing. I update my UI manually with querySelectors and setting innerText/innerHTML.