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Tried atomic design for a solo project and it backfired hard
I spent 2 weeks building out all these tiny button and input components for a personal dashboard in React, thinking it would save time later. Turns out I over-engineered everything and the final page needed 15 layers of nested components just to show a simple form. Has anyone else found atomic design totally overkill for small solo stuff?
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green.mason7d ago
Yeah that 15 layers thing hit home. I tried the same approach on a little weather app and spent more time untangling component hierarchies than actually building features.
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nathanking6d ago
Ha, yeah but did you actually save any time by reusing those components later at all?
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