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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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The Importance of Improved DX in React

Facebook leaned too heavily into JavaScript because of that DX, just as you said, ML. And we leaned into it too far, but now I feel like the clawback is only possible because of improved DX. So react wasn't just there because it was Facebook. It was fundamentally a better DX. We went all in on that and walked ourselves into a hole where it makes it very hard to claw back some of those user facing performance and other things. That's kind of where I was trying to get to with like, there's a fundamental choice that was made in the architecture that pushes that way.

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