Quite sincerely, it's a total failure. I got the chance to try the new interface, and it's so slow that it's barely usable. It's even slower than the old website, that was already painfully slow.
Loading a random profile takes 8 seconds. Opening a messenger discussion takes 6 seconds. It reminds me of the new Reddit website. Facebook was more enjoyable to use 12 years ago.
It's really sad that in 2020, 10k+ engineers can't make a photo, video, post and message sharing website that is not a pain to use. We collectively failed as a profession. If one needs 2MB of CSS for such a website, there is clearly a problem.
Agree whole heartedly, Facebook is a disgrace of a website and has been for years. Crazy how slow it is to load.
I think you could add Twitter and New Reddit to the list as well.
In France we have a Craiglist-like website. They recently moved to ReactJS : https://www.leboncoin.fr/
The website features didn't changed in between. It's basically a pagination + a search based on radius (so DB related) + name (so DB related) + categories (so DB related).
The complete website could be build in pure HTML + CSS and a bit of JS + Ajax to refresh parts of it.
But no, it's build with ReactJS, and it takes seconds to search a simple item on it.
To compare, just try the same search on the Dutch equivalent, MarktPlaats, https://www.marktplaats.nl/. The experience is way snappier, way lighter, the features are the same, and it's just HTML + CSS + a bit of JS.
We made a mistake with React/Vue/Angular. And we should really go back and stop using those frameworks.
> And we should really go back and stop using those frameworks
I think you are cherry picking.
There are plenty of examples in the modern web of terrible React/etc implementations but that doesn't mean the approach in itself is bad.
Please name some.
Some good React alternatives?
I’ve been plying around with lit-element lately and am finding it a much simpler experience overall. Likely a lot faster as well https://youtu.be/uCHZJy2n8Qs
It's also possible to use htm with Preact for developing without a bundler if your target users support ES6.