Web Development

This is a crazy mess.

The subject of "worse reimplementations of native features" reminds me of trying to find an event for the (2012?) Olympics. They didn't seem to have a search, but they did have an infinite scrolling schedule page so I held down End until the page had everything and used the native search. No results, even when I tried something that I knew was at the top of the page.

I noticed the scrollbar was acting weird and looked into it. Turns out that they were removing the parts of the page outside of the viewport and loading them back in when you scrolled.

I suspect it's because they were finding their bloated page was slow on some devices so put in this terrible hack, but it broke basic browser features.

The problem is obvious however, most people just want a quick and easy component library and don't care about stuff like that. I often fall into that group too, because making new components from scratch is boring and annoying and then often end up looking worse with fewer features anyway than if you just copy pasted the messy shadcn amalgamation