# I am your secret Admirer

**URL:** <https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/i-am-your-secret-admirer/13837>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/i-am-your-secret-admirer/13837 "2017-11-02T01:59:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![zacksiri](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/zacksiri/32/13454_2.png) [@zacksiri](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/zacksiri)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/i-am-your-secret-admirer/13837/1 "2017-11-02T01:59:39Z")

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Hey Ember Community

Over the past 2 years I’ve been working with React applications. I followed the hype and I build with React, yes react itself is great but everything else around it is complicated, fragmented, and inconsistent. Needless to say looking back, I have to say I wish that I had started here at ember. The amount of hours I’ve wasted setting up React, Webpack, React Router (this is most infuriating because by the time I understood the router they released a new version which was totally different and IMO didn’t make things better)

I’m just here to let you guys know if I start a new project today it would be in Ember. Keep doing what you guys are doing, you guys are on the right path. You provide a cohesive experience for building ambitious front end application just as advertised. Ember is by far the right choice, coming from a guy who now has to maintain React apps.

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**Author:** ![James-Byrne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.emberjs.com/james-byrne/32/17391_2.png) [@James-Byrne](https://discuss.emberjs.com/u/James-Byrne)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/i-am-your-secret-admirer/13837/2 "2017-11-02T10:27:22Z")

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Hey Zacksiri, awesome to have you on board. Have to say I relate with that story alot. I basically made the same journey but with angular 1 instead of react. I found after a while the framework hype gives way to a need for sanity and the breaking changes/fragmentation of the Angular and React worlds just doesn’t cut it.