Re:Using React Is a Business Decision, Not a Technology Choice
by acdha on Thursday December 10, 2015 @04:07PM
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The main problem I have is from framing it as exclusively a business decision; for almost any issue, it's going to be a combination of the two.
This felt particularly odd since most of your examples are more technical than business issues – the only one which didn't feel like it was something just about everyone else claims as well is the list of large companies using React since that gets to a core business question of risk exposure.
Re:Using React Is a Business Decision, Not a Technology Choice
by baerbaerbaer on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:18PM
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Risk exposure is a BIG issue and is actually one of the primary points of leverage since we were transitioning from a Backbone meta-library that had recently been deprecated. I'll agree that tooling choice needs to be a good technical AND business decision but I do think it's important to address the concerns of those who are maybe gunshy after their last transition from maybe jsp -> jQuery.
I agree that the information is technical but it's not above most many of the business side people who can speak the language a bit. I'm confident that most of these things can either be directly tied to the bottom line or help dispel concerns about how a transition can be made effectively.
Thanks for the feedback!
Mostly I've found blog posts about react to come in 3 flavors: 1. Something geared towards an audience that lives and breathes web and wants to learn about new tech 2. somebody's experience integrating 3. A tutorial of some kind illustrating how to get started.
It was my hope that I could help provide a concise starting point for others who are trying to migrate old stacks to React not to convey new insights :).