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2026-05-08 10:38 UTC
@t_var_s@phpc.social @baldur@toot.cafe As far as project structure, sure! But each has very different /uses/ and are best-handled by the browser in their own context. Yes, any given element of a web app needs layout, styling, and logic. HTML, CSS, JS. But putting the layout AND styling INSIDE the logic language is self-evidently a huge, wasteful mess 🤷♀️
My job makes me work in other people’s messy React all day, but before that I spent years keeping those concerns separate. JSX and CSS-in-JS are *terrible ideas*!
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@splendorr@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 10:43
@t_var_s@phpc.social @baldur@toot.cafe in my opinion what web devs want is tooling that makes the interactions between these 3 concerns clearer. But instead we got a bunch of corporate tools that slammed all of it into javascript, written by folks (at facebook and microsoft, mostly) who don’t care about understanding the web as a platform because they think /they/ are they platform. React and its descendants are an attempt to abstract and coerce the web into corporate factory lines. It’s a real shame!