The React Project Grew Bloated

In the land of code, where React does reside, A tale of overengineering I shall provide. With JSX and components, we ventured forth, But soon discovered complexity, spreading like the north. Oh, React, you beautiful, brilliant beast, But sometimes your solutions leave us in a feast. With hooks and contexts, we dive deep into the fray, But our simple app turns into a puzzle, day by day. First came the state, a humble little thing, But then came Redux, and Saga took wing. Thunk, Redux Toolkit, and Apollo's grand scope, Our project grew bloated, tangled like a rope. We split our components, into atoms, molecules, Organisms, templates, each with their own rules. But soon our file tree resembled a jungle dense, Finding a single component became our defense. Immutable data and memoization we embraced, But the complexity multiplied at an alarming pace. Reselect, re-reselect, and then re-reselect, Our minds were left spinning, trying to recollect. Build tools and bundlers, oh what a fuss, Webpack, Babel, and their plugins robust. Config files upon config files, we amassed, Each tweak and optimization, our time slipped so fast. CSS-in-JS, a clever approach indeed, But now we're writing styles with a JavaScript creed. Emotion, Styled Components, and many more, Our stylesheets entangled, tangled to the core.

A laughing man is shown beside a long poem about a React project becoming increasingly overengineered. The joke is that every supposedly helpful tool, abstraction, and optimization adds another layer of complexity until a simple app becomes impossible to navigate. It is used as a reaction to bloated frontend architecture, excessive dependencies, or projects that have become tangled through overengineering.

• @gentoomemes / 4987 2023-06-18