[dceddia]

> I hate to think about all the time we spent trying to optimize the Angular digest cycle...

Yep. I spent a few days last week reimplementing a heavy part of our app in React, specifically because of this problem. "Make everything a component" is a great idea, but does not work so well in real-life Angular 1.5 when you're building a complex tree-like editor. The digest cycles grow longer and longer.

The code reimplemented in React is 30% smaller and 8x faster (with some other tweaks to cut down on the frequency of digest cycles). I'm really enjoying React so far.