--- title: Is React going anywhere? | daily.dev description: React will be 10 years old on the 29th of May 2023 (finally recruiters are able to ask for 10 years of experience, without being a laughing stock) React is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/is-react-going-anywhere--kk7qnx1wi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Is React going anywhere? | daily.dev og:description: React will be 10 years old on the 29th of May 2023 (finally recruiters are able to ask for 10 years of experience, without being a laughing stock) React is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-react-going-anywhere--kk7qnx1wi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kk7qnX1Wi.png og:image:alt: Is React going anywhere? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is React going anywhere? **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 6 min read · 184 upvotes · 23 comments ## Summary React will be 10 years old on the 29th of May 2023 (finally recruiters are able to ask for 10 years of experience, without being a laughing stock) React is getting old, and when applications start to get old, you start finding issues, loads of them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@axibord** · 28 upvotes > The real question is not about React going somewhere, some of the alternatives are not "slightly better" rather immensely better, you know that a big company in Brazil is using Svlete for embedded UI for arduino devices not so powerful, performance is a big thing, as devs we want to build the best application possible, we are not business mens looking for turnover, I'm a React developer myself and work as a freelance on a big React project, and let me tell you, if the project was written in Solid it will be 10x easier to maintain, just because of the app re-rendering all the time due to... **@avinashmeetoo** · 5 upvotes > I love it when the author writes: > > > I have observed something really interesting and is that we as developers like to find culprits, but when the culprits are not very obvious, for example, when the issues are related to processes, company culture or just bad practices, we turn the blind eye on those issues that are affecting our applications the most and convince ourselves that the problem must be the technology because it is something we have somewhat control over. > > > It is easier for engineers to suggest and convince leaders in organisations that if we change the technology we will... **@leconbang314** · 3 upvotes > I think technologies changes all the time, and that is the same for not only React but for all of our current technologies like Cloud, AI, ML, etc.. . That is something like the rule of universe, things are born, grow, and dead. > > The main question for us is what is our problem and which tools/technologies that can help us tackle that problem at the moment (of course with the consideration between pros and cons). And then just go with it. Dont limit ourself in any biases and open-minded as much as possible. **@lexlohr** · 3 upvotes > Let's be clear, two things are keeping react alive: *community* and *momentum*. The large community means that there is an abundance of developers for hire who have React in their CV. It also means that the ecosystem is so large that you are going to find a library for most tasks that will save you time (it might cost you in the long run, but management rarely sees that). Momentum means that projects that are already started will not convert to another library on a whim, even if it provides compatibility with react like preact-compat, for the fear of breaking things. > > That means only smaller... **@midudev** · 2 upvotes > To soon for a bye bye. React will definitely be gone some time but it doesn't seem to be the near future. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: 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it’s because they didn’t work on a big project.\nThus said i might be completely wrong, but for me i found that Svlete, Solid and Qwik are a superior alternatives, especially Solid, they offer you free optimized code without you thinking about anything, your app will be fully optimized out the box ! it’s huge","datePublished":"2022-11-30T17:09:54.548Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kk7qnX1Wi#c-waEEVcC1S","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Aghiles Lounis","url":"https://daily.dev/axibord","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--S7gNWW_v--/f_auto/v1721000094/avatars/avatar_cJsmNmg3NN"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":28}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I love it when the author writes:\n\nI have observed something really interesting and is that we as developers like to find culprits, but when the culprits are not very obvious, for example, when the issues are related to processes, company culture or just bad practices, we turn the blind eye on those issues that are affecting our applications the most and convince ourselves that the problem must be the technology because it is something we have somewhat control over.\n\n\nIt is easier for engineers to suggest and convince leaders in organisations that if we change the technology we will somehow magically solve all the other problems.\n\nThis is something which I have observed so many times over the past 25 years.\nThis is a very important insight. It’s (practically) never because of the technology…","datePublished":"2022-12-05T03:55:36.306Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kk7qnX1Wi#c-6FxI80W4n","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Avinash Meetoo","url":"https://daily.dev/avinashmeetoo","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--O0TOmw4y--/f_auto/v1715772965/public/noProfile"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I think technologies changes all the time, and that is the same for not only React but for all of our current technologies like Cloud, AI, ML, etc… . That is something like the rule of universe, things are born, grow, and dead.\nThe main question for us is what is our problem and which tools/technologies that can help us tackle that problem at the moment (of course with the consideration between pros and cons). And then just go with it. Dont limit ourself in any biases and open-minded as much as possible.","datePublished":"2022-12-05T01:12:47.687Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kk7qnX1Wi#c-FrHgUEAmd","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"lecongbang314","url":"https://daily.dev/leconbang314","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/v1668311064/avatars/avatar_KGT2nJqvB55fHhwg5dCob.jpg"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Let’s be clear, two things are keeping react alive: community and momentum. The large community means that there is an abundance of developers for hire who have React in their CV. It also means that the ecosystem is so large that you are going to find a library for most tasks that will save you time (it might cost you in the long run, but management rarely sees that). Momentum means that projects that are already started will not convert to another library on a whim, even if it provides compatibility with react like preact-compat, for the fear of breaking things.\nThat means only smaller projects will attempt to use like Qwik for blogs, marko for webshop pages, solidjs for web apps or even vanilla JS.\nOn the other hand, those frameworks provide some substantial benefints in terms of performance and DX. They only need to gain momentum.","datePublished":"2022-12-09T10:09:55.482Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kk7qnX1Wi#c-NTUgtlWup","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Lohr","url":"https://daily.dev/lexlohr","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a-/AFdZuco9x-ZOIY48Y3l6mwE_djy1FceBbHU5BawnEvGKKQ=s100"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"To soon for a bye bye. React will definitely be gone some time but it doesn’t seem to be the near future.","datePublished":"2022-12-05T15:32:52.161Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kk7qnX1Wi#c-hCHhphMpD","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Miguel Ángel Durán","url":"https://daily.dev/midudev","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1561955?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}}]} ```