https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/tags/javascript/Recent content in javascript on James AlvarezHugoen-gbFri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/react/Fri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/react/<p>I've used React for many projects in my career, and it's a framework I'm quite comfortable with and can develop with quite quickly, and I do like building things with it! But in every single case I've doubted whether it's the right choice, and have often ended up believing it has slowed development time down due to making the project tooling over-complex.</p> <p>Recently at work I have been debating with my team about whether to use React for a new project, I've been arguing against it and have compiled a list of links to articles that make the case well:</p>https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/my-new-website-and-blog/Wed, 30 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://jamesalvarez.co.uk/blog/my-new-website-and-blog/<p>Inspired by <a href="https://adactio.com/articles/17701">this</a> and <a href="https://colly.com/articles/this-used-to-be-our-playground">this</a> (both sourced from <a href="https://adactio.com">Adactio’s website</a> who I sometimes play irish folk music with!) I spent some of my christmas holiday redoing my personal website and blog. It used to be a minimal effort wordpress 'jobby' with an off the shelf theme, and a number of plugins to do things that would take me 10 minutes to do in raw html. Whilst Wordpress is an incredible piece of software, I got annoyed by a number of things: the spam, the loading times, the visual clutter, constantly having to update, the vague sense of being bombarded by bots looking to hack the site and the <em>incessant</em> spam. So I decided to make my blog again without any frameworks. The benefits of not using are framework for me are:</p>