[luord]

After reading so much about it and trying it several times, I think my problem with react (alongside the licensing issue anyway) is that it feels like the perfect example of the fundamental theorem of SE: Everything is full of indirections and, when that isn't enough, then more abstractions in the form of tangentially related libraries (such as immutablejs in this thread) are recommended.

I'm sticking with Vue, it's not perfect but it was at least designed to play with js's strengths instead of abstracting them to shoehorn functional principles.