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by boubiyeah 2855 days ago
I want to say Great work, even if it's not done yet.

The react team obviously works well together, the vision is here and as an engineer who's been doing frontend work for 15 years (using flex, vanillaJS, various home-made frameworks, backbone, knockout, angular, etc) let me tell you I've never seen another framework/library come half way close to React.

By the way, why not use this big, breaking release to start offering another way to write stateful components from functions? (ES6 classes, prototypes and anything that forces me to use "this" are still part of the very bad parts of JS, imo)

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Because there's only so much the React team can tackle at once :)

Yes, they've said several times they want to introduce a "stateful functional components" API, but based on comments I've seen, that's probably still about a year or so off.