Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens
10 months ago
- #conferences
- #web-development
- #react
- The author thanks JSNation organizers and attendees for engaging debates and a well-organized event.
- JSNation featured strong talks, including Jeremias Menichelli's on outdated hacks and Vinicius Dallacqua's on LoAF.
- React Summit 2025 was criticized for lacking challenging content and promoting framework dogma without addressing quality issues.
- The author highlights a quality crisis in the React community, with poor user experiences and high costs.
- React conferences are described as marketing events rather than engineering-focused gatherings.
- Examples like Burger King and Bluesky show poor performance due to excessive JavaScript in React-based projects.
- The author contrasts React's inefficiencies with lighter alternatives like Astro, Hotwired, and 11ty.
- There's a call for frontend development to adopt professional standards, focusing on user needs over developer convenience.
- The author suggests that abandoning React might be necessary to improve web development quality.