[jbreckmckye]

There is a big problem with the commercialisation of React. More and more companies are using learning resources as marketing material. And now one popular JS developer has started beginning his GitHub readmes with advertisements for a paid JS course. It's a far cry from the open, guileless sharing culture of webdev 10 years ago.

[SwellJoe]

I'm somehow less bothered by the latter. Folks gotta make a living, somehow, and sometimes people have to make choices between doing OSS development or having a real job and doing a lot less of the OSS work.

But, the learning materials and marketing are the ones that bug me...especially the ones that neglect to mention that the materials cover React+product, and only mention React in the title. You might not even know it's marketing until you've read half the darned thing and the crux of the thing turns out to be "now create an account here and use this service to outsource the specific thing you googled to learn how to implement yourself". GraphQL has a lot of the same thing going on. It's like "how to draw an owl", only instead of "now draw the rest of the fucking owl", it's "now send us money every month for the rest of your app's life and we'll draw an owl for you".