[vinceguidry]

So are you telling me Facebook has a serious marketing budget for React? If so, that means tech has gotten way way crazier than I could ever have imagined.

There's a complexity angle that needs to be appreciated. I love Rails, I think it's the best solution to the problem it tries to solve for the people it wants to solve that problem for. But it's been called overly-complex and magical. But less-complex, less-magical frameworks just don't solve the problem as well. Just try building something big with Sinatra and you'll see what I mean.

I'm not terribly familiar with Angular, but React, when you remove it from its ecosystem and treat it as just a library-framework, does a great job at facilitating the building of user interfaces. The abstractions and underlying paradigm are somewhat hard to grasp, but once grasped, a competent architect can lay down patterns that juniors can implement.

A lot can get done in a small amount of time with React. The people that managed to do this in the beginning are the ones who christened React the Son of UI Development. People listened, and now we have the Church of React, with the Redux Reformation now upon us. Facebook had nothing to do with it, that was all us.