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@pawelgrzybek@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

Paul is a good writer. I wouldn’t be able to write article like this without swearing a lot.

“The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button” by Paul Hebert

https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/

The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button

Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?

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