> The article is really an advertisement for the authors own framework Binding.scala, rather than a critical look at React.

I'm not sure how I feel about this. One one hand he's clearly biased. On the other hand, for a new project if he doesn't promote it no one will. It's important to market your product even if that product is an open source project.

Although if this was a serious journal or newspaper there would be a very clear disclaimer somewhere. Which is lacking in this article.