[mikl]

> React is a big commitment. I guess that’s why I’m still struggling to comprehend why so many organizations are so eager to take the sturdy, foundational layer of the frontend stack and rewrite it all in a proprietary format.

There’s nothing proprietary about React. It’s all open source. MIT licensed. If you don’t like Facebook’s implementation, there’s like a dozen re-implementations. Hell, a modestly competent software developer could write his own implementation of React in a few days of work.

All else being equal, I’d say a React code base will be less of a maintenance hassle in the future, than the spaghetti mess you usually get when trying to write complex applications with jQuery (been there, done that).