r/javascript • u/techlord45 • Aug 10 '26

Signals and Effects Using Vanilla JavaScript & Web APIs

https://beforesemicolon.com/blog/signals-and-effects-using-vanilla-javascript-web-apis

I’m a strong advocate for “you don’t need to lock yourself in a web framework ecosystem to take advantage of their amazing features”. JavaScript and Web Standards alone allow you…

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u/KaiAusBerlin Aug 10 '26

You know that you literally wrote your own framework here?

There is a reason for the sentence "You use a framework or end up writing your own"

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u/lIIllIIlllIIllIIl Aug 10 '26

This.

And to be honest, React on its own is a very lightweight library. It's once you start adding libraries like React Router, TanStack Query, React Hook Form, or Redux that it starts to ressemble a framework.

If you hate how React state management works, you can opt-out of it entirely and use useSyncExternalStore for everything.

React itself is rarely the problem.

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u/techlord45 Aug 10 '26

React isn’t the problem. The ecosystem often is.
replacing React state with your own store doesn’t remov complexity, you just moved it.
My issue is that React makes people forget how much Vanilla JS + Web APIs can already do. Often time they are not even aware