I’ve been using React for a while, but I’m starting to see more people moving to other frameworks.
Do you think React is still a good long-term choice, or should developers start focusing on something else?
Curious to hear real experiences.
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Great question. Are you framing this in terms of employment opportunities, the end user experience, or both?
JavaScript is slow, we should be avoiding it as much as possible. I prefer Astro and adding Preact only if I need it. Other than that Next is better than React because of server-side rendering.
However, plenty of companies still use React.
Imo the speed of the language isn’t that important for the types of things you build on web. You can shoot yourself in the foot using JavaScript (with or without React) and you can shoot yourself in the foot with any other language. If you architect a good React app, you can deliver a great user experience. I’m sure there is some web use case that genuinely requires insane performance that you shouldn’t use React for. But for most projects, you’ll be fine.
