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Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm Developer (korban.net)
7 points by thunderbong on Jan 3, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I agree with the conclusion

> With React and TypeScript, it’s like being in the middle of a megapolis: there are many, many things that are possible, but it’s noisy and overwhelming.

I love the ecosystem. There are hundreds of headless component libraries, amazing new tools (Tanstack start), but I keep forgetting how much friction there is when working on a fullstack JS/TS project.

I find credo much more pleasant than eslint. Especially the eslint 9 upgrade was very annoying. I also get annoyed when I have to combine eslint and prettier on a new project for example. Frameworks work nicely, until they break (remix + multitenancy, adonisjs with graphql, nextjs with anything).

Elixir is simpler, much compact, but it's not better. The javascript ecosystem is a victim of its success.




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