[ssorallen]

Alex Russell introduced Web Components in 2011. React was released in 2013.

Web Components originally used a view-model architecture, which I would guess was heavily inspired by the most popular JS framework leading up to 2011: Backbone.

React was a massive departure from Backbone, and sadly the Web Components spec was developed before React had matured and changed the landscape.

[Shorel]

I think it was Angular.js the framework that made us jump from JQuery to the modern way to do things. Backbone was never that popular.

Angular.JS was created in 2009 and released in 2010.

[ssorallen]

Yup good call, Angular.js seems more likely than Backbone now that you mention it.

[mathgladiator]

Thanks for the correction