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Carlos Santana Roldán
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Carlos Santana Roldán

Carlos Santana Roldán is a senior web developer with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer at APM Music. He is the founder of JS Education, where he teaches people web technologies such as React, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
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Understanding JavaScript fatigue

There is a prevailing opinion that React consists of a vast set of technologies and tools, and if you want to use it, you are forced to deal with package managers, transpilers, module bundlers, and an infinite list of different libraries. This idea is so widespread and shared among people that it has been clearly defined and given the name JavaScript fatigue.

Misconceptions about React

It is not hard to understand the reasons behind JavaScript fatigue. All the repositories and libraries in the React ecosystem are made using shiny new technologies, the latest version of JavaScript, and the most advanced techniques and paradigms. Moreover, there is a massive amount of React boilerplate code on GitHub, each with tens of dependencies to offer solutions for any problem.

However, it is essential to understand that React is a pretty tiny library, and it can be used inside any page (or even inside JSFiddle) in the same way everyone used to use...

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Carlos Santana Roldán

Carlos Santana Roldán is a senior web developer with more than 15 years of experience. Currently, he is working as a Principal Engineer at APM Music. He is the founder of JS Education, where he teaches people web technologies such as React, Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
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