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Nope, dude at my job totally got "laid off" for choosing to write a feature in an ecommerce system in React. He had used it before at a previous job and was familiar with it. Problem was:

- No one else in the team was familiar with React.

- React did not play nice with the rest of the app and developer work flow.

- It was huge and slow

- He didn't know React as well as he thought he did and we had endless bugs.

- He spent ages working on it.

We rewrote in vanilla JS in 4 days - one dev.

And, yeah, effing JS.

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They didn’t literally mean getting fired for choosing a framework choice and it doesn’t sound like your story does either.

The point is about making safe choices compared to alternatives. Migrating a project without full team buy in and without testing the waters in small incremental experiments is a developer/management problem.

Everyone gets miscorrected for using either a heuristic or an analogy.

This should never happen, the developers should not choose whatever technology stack or components they want for their piece of code, that's how Frankenstein started. But getting fired is reasonable in this case.

Agreed, but there must be more to this story that resulted in firing. You can't easily fire people for the issues listed here, at least in most civilized parts of the world.

I wish. West Coast of USA can fire you for a bad haircut.

Yeah, that's a little bit of the story that I left out - he also chose React without the normal team consensus on tech, so there was that, too.

But, but ... resume driven development!

He didn't get fired for choosing React though, he got fired for not being a good developer. If the task was so small you could write it in 4 days it should be easy for any competent developer to write a fast small React version.

I always find React/Vue comparisons with vanilla JS so curious, as if there's feature parity. No one would say "I rewrote this Flask REST API in vanilla Python".

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