Programmer Humor

I feel bad because while I don't reach for react (I usually pick Vue or vanilla), people's comments about react is really depressing.

There's a LOT of shitty react code. And when you see beautiful react implementation, it's like a work of art.

Unfortunately, react projects have been given to by bootcamps grads with 6 months of experience and it's like the blind leading the blind...

I wonder if it's like PHP. Lots of people shit on it because they had to futz around in a garbage project written by garbage developers, fully unaware that it can be elegant in the hands of a professional team who cares about code quality.

Took him two days to figure out a hello world in react?

React definition: React (also known as React.js or ReactJS) is a free and open-source front-end JavaScript library for building user interfaces based on components.

Guys, I've learned React in 1 minute!

Tbf, "learned a language" is a hard thing to pin down in any case.

I've been building enterprise software with python for almost a decade now. I still occasionally find stuff in the stdlibs that I didn't know about, or even sometimes some subtle feature of the language that I never had reason to explore until now.

If someone asks me if I "learned" python, id say hell yeah - but there's always still plenty to learn

That being said, no reasonable definition of learned includes what you could do in 2 days, even as an experienced dev lol

Dude’s training for his spelling bee. Let’s not over_react_.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

ReactDOM.render(
	<div>
		<h1>My Site</h1>
		<p>Welcome to my cool site. 😎</p>
	</div>,
	document.getElementById('root')
);

Me too. I'll take my salary now, please.

Edit: Lemmy stripped out my rickroll. :(

I didn’t take me more than a day to learn (I don’t understand) React.

Probably the hardest part of React, for me, was getting used to the callbacks. Passing data up to the parent component using a function. It's a little difficult to get used to if you haven't encountered it already

This is probably someone that also didn't learn JavaScript properly

Bah, 2 whole days? I learned React in 1 day!... then another, and another, and then I got a book, and a few years later... I learned how to fix whatever ChatGPT spits out in React in 2 days!

I thought I learned it.. Then I got screwed for ages until I worked out how UseEffect worked.

To be clear though, I still suck, and am probably doing a lot wrong

I learned about how much I didn't understand react on my 2nd dev job. I had like 2yoe with react previously. There's a lot about it. Mostly tricks. hacks and work arounds for it's abysmal performance.

Does anyone else read this and think "goddamn I hate my career choice" and simultaneously think "goddamn there isn't a lot you could pay me to do"

I have worked on a few React web apps now and I can't say that I have learned it fr