Self-contradicting tripe that plays leapfrog with spurious, tenuously connected points. Accusations of flawed design with promise of exposition go nowhere but steam-blowing and apparent confusion with what exactly React provides, even what a framework is.
Then he goes all weird and starts dropping some projection/social "critique" on Facebook and Google, more spitballing and misunderstanding the React ecosystem (as another HN poster pointed out, React on its own is far from opinionated - the author's notion that React tries to "tightly couple presentation, behavior, and data." is patently false.)
Also, a part of the beauty with both React and Angular are access to the healthy ecosystems of interchangeable components.
Sorry pal, if you were looking to rustle webdev jimmies, then "Sad State of Web Development" this is not.
I think most developers are fine just plucking the most active and "starred" repositories on github.
I tried Structor briefly and while I liked the idea in principle, my tooling and requirements are changing too quickly and I do a better job keeping my dependencies up to date. I feel that adding an extra layer of complexity between or adjacent to my application and the dependencies I'm probably already pulling from npm/github is going to be viewed by many as needless when importing components from modules is painless enough as it is.
Still, I like your project and it has a lot of potential.
Honestly? Yeah. I printed a lot of man pages and docs out, kept my references closer at hand than I do now, and made a lot of handwritten notes to help bury peculiarities and API into my swiss cheese brain.
agreed. getting tired of seeing this self-loathing nonsense and unabashed racism towards whites that's made it from tumblr vogue to mainstream media. it was no easy ride being poor and white in a black neighbourhood, either.