[peterhunt]

Hey there!

Thanks for the kind words. We actually recently (yesterday? 2 days ago?) landed a change that uses a data-reactid attribute instead of taking over ID. So problem solved! It will be in our next public release in early July.

Wanted to acknowledge a few other things too:

Changing the specificity sucks so YMMV with switching to classes. I prefer to use only classes because it's a bit easier to reason about specificity IMO. Also, we like to think of all components as reusable, so IDs don't make sense.

But I totally hear you about integrating with a legacy codebase, so I'm really glad that we're now using data-reactid instead of id.

As far as polluting the window namespace, we actually prefaced our IDs with "." so you can't accidentally reference them and we're unlikely to clobber anything you'd reference.

But again none of this matters anymore since we stopped using IDs, but wanted to vindicate your concerns :)

[anondesign]

Yay! Awesome news! Will have to reevaluate it at the end of july. Thanks again for your team's great work on pushing a polished open source framework.