Skipping React hydration… so, only rendering on the server? BBC just re-invented server-side rendering, bravo 👏😆
I say this as an 8-year React developer. Damn, our industry really drank the kool-aid on on this one. Of course, plenty of people have been saying that React for static content like this has always been a misapplication of the tool, I’ve been reading opinions like that the entire time I’ve been working with it.
I’m glad BBC is doing this, though. Legitimate kudos to them for recognizing the issue and working towards fixing it. I actually think there are some great benefits that React has given us:
A universal component interface for all JavaScript-targeting languages
An enormous ecosystem of components
Popularization of the “component model”, which has spread to basically every other language that is used to render user interfaces (the mental model is just that much better)
A quickly-evolving (React is arguably on its third major paradigm shift) testbed for what works best for UI development
I would be happy if React was supplanted in the near future, but I also have some fondness for it. I know I’m way off topic on this post, just felt like talking about React.
While I agree that a lot of the hype around AI goes overboard, you should probably read this recent paper about AI classification: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462
Systems like DeepMind are narrow AI, whereas LLMs are general AI.
It weakens it a bit, but in my opinion it still has strength where it counts. If an attacker gets access to your password outside your password manager (man-in-the-middle, keylogger, phishing), then you’re still protected. Maybe it’s hubris in my own ability to keep my password manager safe, but I’ve never been worried about storing MFA in my password manager.
Skipping React hydration… so, only rendering on the server? BBC just re-invented server-side rendering, bravo 👏😆
I say this as an 8-year React developer. Damn, our industry really drank the kool-aid on on this one. Of course, plenty of people have been saying that React for static content like this has always been a misapplication of the tool, I’ve been reading opinions like that the entire time I’ve been working with it.
I’m glad BBC is doing this, though. Legitimate kudos to them for recognizing the issue and working towards fixing it. I actually think there are some great benefits that React has given us:
I would be happy if React was supplanted in the near future, but I also have some fondness for it. I know I’m way off topic on this post, just felt like talking about React.