[bobthepanda]

> Features that should take a week to build now suddenly have complex client side state management requirements (to name one issue)

This sounds like bad system design rather than a problem of React.

In general, I find React hate massively overblown. The problem seems mostly to be that everyone is using it, and "everyone" in the case of frontend devs is all over the place in terms of how they got there, what they know to do, and what they know not to do. If you're not careful, all of the JS ecosystem can give you a lot of rope to hang yourself with. The relative accessibility of webdev is a blessing and a curse.

[mattmanser]

This sounds a lot like the days in web dev before Ruby on Rails came along.

When they (and django) took the web dev world by storm they were prescriptive and told developers how to do something, not just giving them a bunch of tools where you had to build your own app lifecycle, usually massively over-engineered. A whole load of mental overhead disappeared.

Just before Rails, etc. everyone was going on about Factories and the Gang of Four and people were building crazy startup patterns on their webapps using Singletons.