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Why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev
There’s blood in the water. Angry developers, users, and regulatory bodies are circling React and Single-Page-App web development, snapping big chunks out of their sides. The smell of blood just brings more and more critics.
Framework churn – the constant release of partially-incompatible versions – makes maintenance of React-based projects much more expensive than those built on standardised browser APIs, which in practice never change once they get widely supported. Changing attitudes among investors, toxic influences as they are, took the “tailwind”, so to speak, out of React’s sails, making it more acutely noticeable that it’s a generally poor fit to modern web projects. We’ve been watching developers reach for bloated React components long since been made obsolete by singlelines of CSS code or DOM API calls, not because they had a concrete practical reason to do so, but because they simply weren’t aware of just how powerful the web platform has become.
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