React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation

Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by brianbest101 on Monday September 15, 2025 @02:09PM (#45253017)

IIRC it was quite a fight for react, it wasn’t a slam dunk out of the gate.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by tracker1 on Monday September 15, 2025 @02:21PM (#45253179)

Not in the least... that first year hardly anyone would even touch it... "eww you have html in your js."

Personally, I loved it... React + Redux + MUI = Winning (IMO)

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by azemetre on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:16PM (#45255019)

Was there? By 2016 it felt like nearly 80% of frontend development was happening in react. Even startups in central FL in 2015 were all in on react then. That's barely 4ish years from first introduction. That's quite fast in software adoption.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by ern on Monday September 15, 2025 @07:54PM (#45256379)

Angular was bigger than react until 2018/19-ish in the enterprisey places I worked at.

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Re:React Won by Default – and It's Killing Front End Innovation by azemetre on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:34PM (#45257402)

Definitely feels more geographically based then. I worked at Humana and Comcast, they were both on the react train by late 2015/2016. This was northeast area.

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