enhance-starter-project VS React

With all this in mind, one of the first side projects I spun up for myself after joining Begin in 2022 was to investigate how we could make responsive images easier for users to author in their Enhance projects. While by no means revolutionary, the core concept was to make a configurable, standards based, single file component available to users, which would simplify the implementation of responsive images in addition to eliminating the need to generate arbitrary image variants by hand. I (and my colleagues at Begin) went through multiple iterations and proposals for this project, weighing everything from the pros, cons, and most compelling use cases of the Image and Picture elements, to different component signatures, options, and patterns for configuration.

It’s 2024, and you are about to start a new project. Do you reach for React, a framework you know and love or do you look at one of the other hot new frameworks like Astro, Enhance, 11ty, SvelteKit or gasp, plain vanilla Web Components?

If you disagree with this article, maybe try out Enhance in anger and let us know what you think.

The other file in that example is JS, and interestingly it uses a plain template literal without an `html` tag or anything to help with language tools and syntax highlighting

https://github.com/enhance-dev/enhance-starter-project/blob/...

Repository: React

Creating a clone of the YouTube homepage can be both enjoyable and helpful for enhancing your front-end development skills. This project offers a chance to work on a familiar design while getting practical experience with commonly used tools like Tailwind CSS and React.js. It also helps you understand how modern web applications are structured and styled.

React.js

See the releases section of the React codebase, and see how many reactions each release note has!

You know you can just check before making these claims?

> In fact, for years, react didn't even tell in the doc you could use it without a transpiler so people had to learn a whole build chain before even getting to the hello world.

React's original documentation site from June of 2013 (when React was first introduced):

https://web.archive.org/web/20130607085014/http://facebook.g...

Feel free to click around that original documentation site.

Here's the README.md from the commit at the same time:

https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/a41aa76ef36471ba07b29...

> You'll notice that we used an XML-like syntax; we call it JSX. JSX is not required to use React, but it makes code more readable, and writing it feels like writing HTML. A simple transform is included with React that allows converting JSX into native JavaScript for browsers to digest.

At this point I would kindly ask you to go away.

For further insights, refer to the React documentation to learn more about the library.

To get started, let's quickly create a sample React app that has a build configured to export a static site. Even if you have a project in mind to deploy, I recommend going through the motions with a simple sample site, as you may run into implementation specific issues with your project & if you've never gone through the motions, it can be hard to determine whether you made a mistake in the deployment processes or if there are implementation specific issues you're facing.