I don't care who uses React, because when such websites don't run properly on my browser, I just close the tab.

What really needs to be regulated are technologies that the government can use for its own digital services

Diagonally reading it seems like a rant with some lack of inspiration on the title. Had the author seen other frameworks (maybe not just web, public, etc) they’d realize none of those are React specific. No framework is perfect, but the diversity of capabilities combined with uneven (and lack of) skills can have these consequences.

Is it time to regulate React? No, and it will never be.

Is it time to regulate customer facing websites that are slow and suffer from accessibility issues?

Isn't google search already doing it? Even if i were to agree to regulation, I don't think govt is the right entity to do the regulatuon

The negativity oozing out of this article undermines the main points (of which there’s some good ones). Belittling and admonishing an entire cohort of your peers because they like a tech you don’t is not helpful.

I think React has some fundamental API issues (Solid/Svelte are better) and there’s way too many petabytes of JS out there for sure. But it pioneered some great concepts, and its ecosystem is robust.

Building complex interactive web apps without a framework is still a disaster in 2025. React and friends are not going anywhere until that changes.

Nothing popular is clean, pure, efficient and self-consistent.

The mere fact of popularity means that it will be misused, misrepresented, and influenced to include a kitchen sink of enablers for use cases that should really be solved another way. That’s life at the top of the charts, and pointing that out is no act of genius.

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People complained for YEARS that FE development was changing every 4 months. Now it doesn't. win win.

I never understand the whole “react websites are laggy and slow use another library” thing. 99% of the websites built using React I’ve used (and every website I’ve built using React myself) have been fine performance-wise. What are all these laggy vibe coded websites people are using?! And why are you using them lol