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by tga 3429 days ago
I was going to complain about churn and such, but we've all heard the JavaScript framework fatigue story a thousand times.

I'll summarize it to this: don't expect a solid, stable, boring library to come out of someone's hobby project.

React itself bloomed under Facebook's stewardship, while all the other libraries in the ecosystem are bouncing all over the place without anything to keep them in place, especially after they lose their initial shine and geek points.

Kudos to the authors for their achievements. I don't recall you promising anything to anybody, so any code you put out contributes something to the world, even if you get bored and change the API from procedural to declarative and back three times a day.

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Following stable releases we had one breaking API change in 2 years from 0.13 -> 1.0. 2.0 was fully BC, 3.0 removed 1.0 API 8 months after 2.0 was released. People shouldn't install beta/alpha like its stable and then complain to us about it.