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Front-end frameworks
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2014–2023), in 6 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Front-end frameworks, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Confusing concepts waste developer time; hard to learn why frameworks behave as they do2023-07-19
- Simple UI actions wait on server calls, making apps slow and glitchy2023-02-03
- Can't find documented SPA architecture best practices, so building a clean SPA is hard2021-09-21
- Frameworks swap raw JavaScript state complexity for learning the framework itself2019-04-02
- Developers can't tell where a value comes from or what a button does in large apps2017-09-27
- Built on well-worn interaction patterns that are generally unusable, so users can't easily correct errors or understand controls2014-12-04