Ask HN: ReactJS – Do you use it? Do you like it?

Re:Ask HN: ReactJS – Do you use it? Do you like it? by chantastic on Sunday June 21, 2015 @04:20AM (#9752667)

I like React because it's closer to JavaScript than any other JS library I've used. The public API is tiny; you get better at React by getting better at JavaScript.

The only thing I don't like about React is the rapid churn in architecture best-practices (Flux et al). This is in stark contrast to Ember—which nails conventions and tooling but is written far about vanilla JS.

We use React because components are a great abstraction for the web. React components are also very transportable, making them a great addition to integrated systems like Rails.

I like to focus on transferable skills. I don't want to be a Backbone/Ember/Angular/whatever developer. I want to be a good JavaScript developer. React makes that happen.

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Re:Ask HN: ReactJS – Do you use it? Do you like it? by WorldWideWayne on Sunday June 21, 2015 @10:27AM (#9753562)

> ...rapid churn...

This is why I'm sticking with Knockout for probably another year or so. It's tiny, safe, easy, stable and it's already been proven to work for large apps.

It also has a beautiful component system and since Knockout simply stays out of your way, you get to focus on Javascript. When the churn dies down in React-land, maybe I'll take another look.

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