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Ways out of the JavaScript crisis
There is a simple, popular and convenient explanation: A small cabal of JavaScript framework vendors, “ merchants of complexity ”, “fraudsters”, “grifters”, have conspired to sell us inferior architectures. “React and the component model standardises the software developer and reduces their individual bargaining power […] It helps [management and executives] erase the various specialities – CSS, accessibility, standard JavaScript in the browser, to name a few – from the job market.” Over the course of years, every real-world software project becomes a monument of shifts in product direction, power struggles, management and organizational restructuring, conflicting programming patterns and incomplete migrations.
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