[jabbernotty]

I find it amazing how many different software development frameworks are out there. After all these years I still haven't bothered to look up what React is, and I probably will never need to. I will probably never get to maintain a codebase that uses it. So if being 'up-to-date' isn't something I will go for, how do I measure myself as a developer? I think I will go for something like 'having made a lot more regular people happy than I have frustrated'.

[revskill]

You should try and use React first before deciding if it's actually helpful for you later.

In case of React, to me, i no longer bother with syncing state with html, something like `node.innerHTML = `${my_state}`

It's actually beneficial to me.

[skohan]

Yeah I spent some time with raw javascript, jQuery and angular, but React is the first web framework which actually feels like a decent solution to the problem of how to build interactive web applications, rather than just being another hack.

[pferde]

That sounds like something horrible that one never should have needed to bother with in the first place.

Like saying that with this new car, I no longer bother checking whether the wheels aren't about to fall off. :)

[qwerty1234599]

Probably around half of frontend developer jobs I see nowadays are for projects using react; and that number keeps going up.

If you do any web development at all, chances are you will have to work in a React codebase during the next decade

[pjmlp]

Not when one works at an agency that happens to bet on other stacks.

[jabbernotty]

I don't understand why this is being downvoted. There is no negativity in the message.