[hartator]

I am using/loving React a lot and is already in several production apps I am working on (thanks for awesome work Facebook!) but I don't fully get this release.

I feel it's a bit premature to separate `react` and `react-dom`. React has proven itself for the web but still has to prove itself as `react-native` and I don't get the friction/complexity being added by break it down into two components for the web. I feel React is more the rendering engine `react-dom` than the class/component system now `react`. What makes React beautiful is to be able to freely mix html into JS and not being limited to the render() call, so I feel the cut is a bit non-organic.

Finally, I love the approach `learn once, write anywhere` but having `react` as a thing by itself points (or at least confuses) to a workflow where you can write components by themselves then plug a rendering engine DOM or native, I don't think that's the initial intent and I don't think that's the intent now of this release as well but it's unnecessary confusing.

[Edit] Don't fully get why I've been downvoted.

[grandalf]

Chances are this clear separation will allow the various teams to submit patches to React without having to worry about time synchronizing with the release of the stuff that is in ReactDOM ... at least once it stabilizes a bit.