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by scorpion032 4034 days ago
Which is the reason, it is an appropriate time to back and stay with React for the long term.

React has so many technical benefits that is all covered through so many posts - That declarative is better, Fast DOM manipulation with Virtual DOM is nice and a great development API and syntax sugar with JSX is wonderful.

Having said all of that, I think what seals the deal in favour of React is that it is being used by Facebook on their homepage for half a decade and in all likely hood going to be continued to, which means you're assured of incremental upgrades and regularly maintained and yet no radical shifts, which would warrant a large change for your product.

I think Facebook has hit the abstraction level perfectly with "Product Engineering" and "Library Development" or "Infrastructure Development". This abstraction may not work well for all use cases. But for a large audience this is what is needed and where it is needed, it fits in perfectly.