Wow, author here. Woke up to a lot of unexpected traffic on the blog. I hope you like this article. I took a long time to understand React and, now I do, I hope other people don't take as long as I did!
Thank you for writing that article. To me, the article is pretty much how an ideal technical article should be: it doesn't assume deep knowledge of the subject matter and uses lots of examples and comparisons to make the case. It takes a lot of work to write that sort of article, I really appreciate that you took the time to do it. Looking forward to seeing the one about Flux!
I clicked through to a few of your other recommended posts and ended up emailing myself a bunch of links to read later. I particularly enjoyed 'Promises Are Not Optional' (http://firstdoit.com/promises-are-not-optional/)
You have a talent for clearly explaining complex abstractions. Nice work!