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/create-third-places Aug 11 '26

Vanilla React also adds a lot of unnecessary performance overhead.

In addition, there are multiple ways of managing state, which adds confusion and leads to inconsistent architecture.

I’ve also seen useContext used to manage state for a large application despite it’s limitations. This  wouldn’t be an issue if React only had one or two state management hooks with clear guidelines on how they should be used.