I write React full time and will admit, many other frameworks are better in most, if not all, scenarios.
Worrying about rerenders is a premature optimization. This person should be more worried about not making overly complex components and instead making many simple ones with few responsibilities
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https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/261
@jakelazaroff.com has also of lot of blog posts on this topic.
#tech
https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
There are other client side frameworks that don't have the tradeoffs and choices made in this article.
It does make a good point that folks should stop using legacy stuff that they don't need to and immediately use the browser thing when available.
Gonna keep reading.
Worrying about rerenders is a premature optimization. This person should be more worried about not making overly complex components and instead making many simple ones with few responsibilities