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> React was an instant hit because it had the facebook brand behind it and everyone was tired of angular.

Ok, but why was everyone tired of Angular? Sure, web frameworks are examples of Fad Driven Development to the extreme, but Angular.js, was pure unmitigated ARSE.

Made ten bindings on a page? That's 100 cross connections. Made 100 two-way bindings? that's 10000 connections.

Clicked one way through fields A, B then started typing, they show same data. Clicked through fields A and C, now they are bound but B isn't. Clicked B then C, congrats all three of your bindings suddenly start filling in.

It was a combination of shitty performance scaling and unintuitive Angular data flow that primed everyone for React to take over.