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by typetrail 2532 days ago
Are you referring to posts like this?: http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/my-struggle-to-learn-react/

"There’s a giant, great JavaScript community out there, but I feel like a lot of times there’s an implied (or sometimes explicit) 'OBVIOUSLY' or 'just' that comes with a lot of the territory. For instance, I was confused why there are different ways to create components in React, and several people tersely responded 'it’s common knowledge that you use functions for simple components and use classes for managing state.' I had no idea! I didn’t see an explanation of that stuff in the docs. If that’s what the convention is, that’s totally fine. Just don’t assume everyone has that info downloaded.",

The assessment is pretty harsh on the guy, I think in Brad's case he's one of the more publicly documented instances of someone putting in the right kinds of effort.