Interested in an example here.
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garrison
It is just very hard to put into words. If you spend time deliberately trying to write complex software with complex features (not accidentally complex, genuine complexity) then you will probably make the same mistakes detailed by Wittens and others. Certainly I did, and I am thankful they took the time to actually write down what you’re supposed to do so that I could learn. Morally, this obligates me to do the same.
This is a common perspective, but let me offer a different one. Desktop software roughly 20 years ago was really good. Things worked well, there were fewer bugs, and people put more effort into UI and UX. And I hate to keep bringing it up, but, like, we had undo/redo. I want my undo/redo.
The web ruined all of this, sort of by accident. REST APIs and forms are not a good user experience. Eventually we got React and its clones, which helped, but it seems like there was some deskilling in the meantime that has left webdev totally broken. I am worried LLMs are only going to make this worse.
React, and here I do not literally mean React but anything similar, is a tool for making declarative programming easier and more efficient. It is entirely possible to use this tool incorrectly (by writing imperative code), and if you do then it will not seem very useful at all. But if used properly it makes it much easier to do all of that stuff which otherwise appears too complex.
Me too. I don’t really have any interest in HTMX, but I respect the author a lot. It seems like a fine library for what it’s meant for, and they are honest about that, so I have nothing to complain about.
It is important to separate the wheat from the chaff. The JS/NPM ecosystem is an unmitigated disaster. But React is pretty good. The cool thing about software is you can just take the parts you like. My React clone is in progress 
You should have no trouble guessing my favorite software manifesto, though.
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garrison
This is a topic where there are no simple examples, only complex ones. Because simple cases do not necessitate this approach.
Note that React-likes are generally concerned with free-flowing, unstructured incrementalization. If you want structured incrementalization have a look at Differential Dataflow and DBSP/Feldera.
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