Component Coloring | afloat.boats

Full disclosure, I hate frameworks of frameworks. How does a thing become so large that it needs other large things to prop it up? Especially if the scaffolding is opaque, and you can’t fathom why it does what it does. People complain about Webpack, but at least you could reason about the pipeline end-to-end.

I’ve written UI apps in React since before the first major version was released. Things like a rich text editor, a photo-editor, some games etc. Back in my day, things had lifecycle methods.. And we injected an instance of V8 inside Laravel to SSR before it was mainstream.

I like React, it’s been straightforward to use. There are faster/lighter/easier things out there, some more interesting like this. I don’t really want to talk about them.

I despise NextJS, not for it’s own faults although I can talk about those too, but for the bullshit surrounding it. From Guillermo’s annoying tweets to the npm package name grab, to two bilboards on the same street corner to Youtube videos titled “Cool FramerJS animations with NextJS”. Bro it’s an SSR framework why do you need to… ugh.

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