[HN Gopher] Second-Guessing the Modern Web
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       Second-Guessing the Modern Web
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-05-27 21:48 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | theteapot wrote:
       | > "There are decent patterns in the form of GraphQL, but for a
       | React component that loads data with fetch from an API, the
       | solutions have only gotten weirder. There's great documentation
       | for everything else, but old-fashioned data loading is relegated
       | to one example of how to mock out 'fetch' for testing, and lots
       | of Medium posts of varying quality."
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       | What is "old-fashioned data loading"?
        
       | burlesona wrote:
       | This is the money quote for me:
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       | > Frameworks should lure people into the pit of success, where
       | following the normal rules and using normal techniques is the
       | winning approach.
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       | > I don't think that React, in this context, really is that pit
       | of success. A naively implemented React SPA isn't stable, or
       | efficient, and it doesn't naturally scale to significant
       | complexity.
        
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