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by jukkakoskinen 3603 days ago
"Once you start doing your UI with it, you pretty much need to make the entire thing use react to really benefit from its model."

In my experience React is quite ideal for cases where some parts of a site or an app need dynamic behavior. I'm currently working on an e-commerce platform's admin panel, and for us a complete rewrite would have been nearly impossible. With React we can keep the old HTML + jQuery codebase, and implement/refactor stuff as small or as big as we need (e.g. a live-search component or a whole new dashboard view). We're doing something very similar to this: https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails#rendering--mounting
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mercurial 3603 days ago
That's the same thing we're doing at my company (with the aim of eventually replacing the old platform entirely), and it's working out very well.
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statictype 3603 days ago
Right - it does work and we have incrementally introduced react as well.

But that works if the various existing components on the page don't have strong multi-directional data flows between them. At least that's what I've experienced.

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