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by laurencerowe 231 days ago
> my React sentiments at the time seemed to be relatively common: React felt like a breath of fresh air.

This was exactly how I felt. I building a Backbone app around the time React was released. It was only around 2600 lines of JS at the time but event handling and state management already felt like a tangled mess.

Porting it to React was a huge improvement even at that scale and really paid off over the next 5 years of development.