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View submission: Massive Failure on the Product
I wonder how much time was wasted building a bunch of shit from scratch in Flask instead of using Django. Also who even uses Flask for new products at this point?
Comment by Headpuncher at 27/01/2025 at 08:31 UTC
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That’s funny because I wondered how much time was wasting building a bunch of shit from scratch in react instead of using a framework that does all the basics out of the box.
I’ve seen too many react projects that spend the first 3 months building “custom components” that turn out to be HTML elements like Select, checkboxes and even buttons in 5 colours.
The they spend a month on choosing a router and everyone has to learn that too.
Then no one understands the 5 different ways to write CSS in the project. Etc etc
Then there’s the bugs that come with junior and senior devs trying to use hooks, but the same way as each other on the team, and without the pitfalls.
Yeah, I think it’s obvious to anyone reading this I’m not a huge fan of react. Less so when the project is time sensitive and the budget doesn’t cover it (but that’s true for anything not just react).