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The year is 2025 and React devs are still stuck in a local maximum with this archaic syntax and absolute footgun of a dependency management abstraction

Imagine all the keystrokes, CPU cycles and brain cycles we collectively could have avoided over the last decade if the industry just moved on from virtual DOM frameworks instead of blindly following runaway network effects (pun intended)

React 19 compiler (beta) cleans up after you

It targets memo-related hooks & automatically fixes Rules-of-React violations statically

If you're work in a large React codebase I'd give it a shot. It can improve perf significantly

https://react.dev/learn/react-compiler#opt-out-of-the-compiler-for-a-component

A brief history of JavaScript frameworks, ranked by client-side rendering performance 🧵

https://youtu.be/E5amN0_1XyE

React Compiler (when it ever comes out of beta) will definitely drastically improve things from where they are now – no question there. But it is still a local maximum and you can only put so much lipstick on a pig.

Unless React fundamentally overhauls itself from being virtual DOM-based to block DOM or signal-based like literally every other framework right now, you are needlessly incurring costs on bundle size, runtime performance, developer experience and user experience by continuing to use it.

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React Compiler (when it ever comes out of beta) will definitely drastically improve things from where they are now – no question there. But it is still a local maximum and you can only put so much lipstick on a pig.

Unless React fundamentally overhauls itself from being virtual DOM-based to block DOM or signal-based like literally every other framework right now, you are needlessly incurring costs on bundle size, runtime performance, developer experience and user experience by continuing to use it.

https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x89943d9c