Over 10 years writting front ends. I hate react, but this article is junk, it advocates for new "reacts". This exact mentality is what got us the bad parts of React, and it's going to give us the bad parts of whatever next library.

All the problems that react faces had already been solved by another framework, YEARS in advance. That framework is ember.js. And you know why? Because react started out as an view layer library, it was not meant to be a full blown front end framework from the beginning and it paid the price. But hipsters kept looking at how fast it rendered 10 million rows instead of focusing on what actually matters FOR EVERY TOOL YOU USE:

SCALABILITY!!!

Does your tool scale? ALL freaking frameworks feel great while writting Todo MVC. But how does feel writting a huge app? That's where decisions matter. And ember.js got these decisions right, everyone is reinventing those decisions (in worse ways) and calling it innovation. You're not innovating, you are reinventing a wheel, having not even learned your lesson from previous experience.

Having done that rant, and having said i hate react, react has become mature enough (with a big ecosystem) to let you do your job decently enough. Give me a freaking break. Let me use a tool for 3 years without having to re-learn a new API.

100% this! I'm amazed at how most issues with React are non-issues with Ember, and still saddened by how often React dev are completely unaware of how these issues have been solved elsewhere.