5 React Alternatives You Should Know

If not React, then what should we use instead? Flutter? Angular? Solid-JS? Vue? Svelte? VanillaJS? Web Components? Let's talk pros, cons and career impact.

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0:00 Introduction
1:01 Flutter
4:38 Angular
6:37 Solid-JS
9:21 Vue
11:19 Svelte
12:39 Vanilla JS and Web Components
13:07 What am I learning?
13:53 Outroduction

#react #react_alternatives

[solid_js]

Great video Jack! Thanks for representing Solid well! We hope the opportunities to work in the framework will grow in the near future. =)

[erenjeager]

Man SolidJS just needs a SSR framework on top of it and I'm sold

[BunyaminGS]

I have been in the Angular side for like 4 years, and recently joined a company that works with React. I can totally agree that things can get out of hand in React when you have multiple teams that own each of their micro-frontends. That's why we came up with so called architectural decision records (ADR's), describing how we do things. Whilst with Angular this kind of comes with the framework itself :)

[Dunktastic]

Svelte is so good, it's also my main alternative. I hope to see more companies and products adopt Svelte and for more job opportunities to appear. Seems like React still dominates the job market.

[everythingisfine]

Sveltekit has been fun. Works amazingly well with the html <video> api

[universecode]

Cool thumbnail 😜I'm a Js - React developer but I always listen to what you say Jack, you are one of the best, for me SolidJS is amazing ... Thanks for the tips 😊

[amanueltigistu]

I am looking at Solid JS (Solid Start) & Netlify Edge Functions. Please Jack, just cover these two in a one video.

[HardGas]

Your endorsement of Flutter is making me take note. Thanks for sharing.

[drewbird]

As always, thank you for your content! I liked this one and hearing your educated opinions.

[AlphaWatt]

Really appreciate all your insight Jack!

[siematos]

Reading up on Solid JS got me here. I personally like the µhtml/LitHTML style of developing with tagged template literals. And it goes really well with a solid/s.js style reactive updating pattern. Thank you for your opinion, Flutter was definitely way lower on my personal list, so I guess, it's worth looking into it as well.

[HotRatsAndTheStooges]

Glad to see Svelte and Solid getting recognition. Would LOVE to use either of those in a professional environment but React is still king unfortunately.

[reybontje]

I'm doing Flutter and React just to pad my resume. I did React a few years ago, but I lost all that I learned after not using it for a while. I learned Angular in my Frameworks course and I was a little confused just coming into React, mostly about state management. Which, your videos on state management, and React in general, have been a huge help.

[RadicalCoder]

Svelte is wonderful, I've been singing its praise for years! So happy to see it thriving

[alangomes]

I did a small project using Svelte, and the result was better than I expected. I hope Svelte continues growing

[ScriptRaccoon]

Svelte is also my favorite, by far! It's super easy to write and to learn, there is no boilerplate, and it's very fast as well. You mentioned that the ecosystem is good, but what should be added here is that Svelte is so close to Vanilla JS that you can simply use THE WHOLE JAVASCRIPT ecosystem. No need for react-blabla, just use blabla on npm which has been there already the whole time. And of course the Web APIs which are built into the browser. But jobwise, maybe I am wrong, but there aren't so many jobs in Svelte yet, right? And even if Svelte is mentioned in a job ad, it seems to be only the secondary language or even less.

[MrChernicharo]

Great video, Jack! Please, we want more videos about solidjs! 🥳🥰😀

[Fitzpa]

Hey Jack,
Great videos!

I've actually been trying to pick up Flutter! It is pretty cool. Maybe you could do a video with this?

Also, would you mind telling me what you use for your audio?
Like what microphone and audio interface you use as well as maybe what kind of processing you do to the audio?

[androidsamsung]

Great video, i have worked with angular and react. So i can relate each of your words.

While writing with react it is too hard to understand the code and patterns used by other teams but angular asks you to write the code in an opinionated manner.

For flutter, learning Dart was a challenging and time taking task, so I somehow could not make it.

Next i would love to start with *svelte*.

[Shortly]

Really enjoy your videos. Really thank you!