So I decided to try out this Carolina Gomez thing everyone’s talking about for my recipe app project. Grabbed my laptop around 8 AM yesterday thinking it’d be quick. First step was installing dependencies – opened terminal and ran those commands I found on GitHub. Boom! Errors popping up like popcorn in a microwave.
The Great Dependency Disaster
Spent three hours wrestling with version conflicts. Kept getting “module not found” alerts that made zero sense. Had to manually tweak * like ten times. Ended up deleting node_modules folder twice before it finally worked. Hands were shaking when that install progress bar actually finished without crashing.
- Deleted *
- Downgraded React to v17
- Added polyfills for IE (who even uses that??)
Around noon I tried implementing their dashboard component – looked slick in the demo videos. Pasted their sample code but my whole screen just went white. Dev tools showed errors about undefined variables and broken SVG paths. Felt like I’d bought furniture missing half the screws.
The Documentation Nightmare
Went hunting through their docs like a detective. Half the links led to 404 pages. Found some forum posts where people complained about the same issues back in 2022. What’s crazy? Nobody offered solutions – just “same problem here” comments. Ended up digging through minified JS to reverse-engineer their stupid animation module.
Made coffee at 3 PM feeling defeated. Then I remembered my buddy Kevin’s disaster story: His startup bet big on some fancy framework that promised “30-minute setup.” Three months later they missed investor deadlines because every component needed custom patches. His team rebelled and switched to plain vanilla JS. Last I heard Kevin quit to become a goat farmer in Vermont.
Finally at dusk I got a stripped-down version kinda working – buttons were misplaced and hover effects didn’t trigger. Screenshot’s in my repo. Moral of the story? New shiny tools ain’t worth the migraine if they can’t handle basic workflows.
