I believe React is popular (among other reasons) because you don't need to learn what is v-if v-else and other repeative commands when you have plain and simple JS equivalents.
React has te philosophy "It jusy works", and people love this
Uhh,no. React is popular because devs HAVE to use JS & DOM to do web development in the browser, and they want speed, and to use a library endorsed by a big company. And some of those devs (like me) prefer the unidirectional / function paradigm.
I think the reason React is so popular is due to the developer experience. It's a simpler mental model where you no longer have to worry about your previous state and how to transition the view to the correct current state based on it.
Yeah but React's popularity is because there is demand and expectations for interactive UIs with tons of features that are taken for granted. Users expect basic amount of interactivity and usability that adds a ton of complexity which React offers a good model for.
React is popular because it re-frames the meat and potatoes of frontend dev as a simple input -> output problem. VDOM merely helps make this approach performant at scale - it has little to do with why people actually use React.
Abusing MutationObserver to get "easy" 2-way data binding is precisely the sort of antipattern that React & Friends would have discouraged.
Funnily, I find one reason React gets adopted is that it looks the most like traditional desktop application UI programming, which is a benefit to large companies with workforces full of people who have written such apps in the past. It's only after you've already committed that you find out it doesn't get you out of needing to understand HTML and state persistence.
Wait a minute, react isn't great because they came up with some ground breaking new concept in ui programming. It's popular because it allows for component based design and updating only what it needs to by diffing. These aren't really novel concepts. It's just a good implementation of ideas that's really helped by mass adoption and the overall community converging on one particular framework leading to lots of tutorials, guides, etc.
Even before react, I had webapps where I'd cobbled together helper objects that did things pretty similar to react, although obviously not as robust.
I chose React because it really made life much easier when it came to reusing components and organising my projects. I find bare bones React the right level of complexity for me and I can get a lot done with it
I think one reason why React is so popular is that it forced you into an object oriented approach whereas before many developers used innerHTML everywhere. It is possible to write object oriented, structured "class" based vanilla JavaScript with imperative DOM manipulations though, witch is more performant then popular frameworks.
React is now the de facto choice and much less painful than past de facto choices, is my take on why. It has a mature and healthy ecosystem, and its relatively small surface makes it easy to learn and predictable, while declarative GUI in general is low on footguns compared to ye ol two-way data binding.
Many of the competitors springing up define themselves in terms of React, either as an improvement or a foil. But if you're just trying to get things done, it's hard to go wrong with it - and in a practical sense, not a "nobody got fired" sense.
Sure popularity ruins many things. Music, movies, books, software libraries.
However, you don't have to use React. React is a set of concepts. I personally really enjoy programming with those concepts (I just wish it wasn't JS). If you don't want to use Facebook's implementation, there are many other implementations.
I love react, I think it's extremely elegant and easy. It's a glimmer of sanity in the insanity that is javascript. I came from a non js programming background and just couldn't deal with the mess of a language that js was/is (especially pre ES6). Without React I would've never gotten interested in front-end development.
1. It is designed to be testable. It makes testing the components much easier than testing jQuery soup.
2. It has an opinionated way for developing javascript applications
3. Will validate input types passed to controllers
4. Has nicer syntax than jQuery soup
I like React because it's closer to JavaScript than any other JS library I've used. The public API is tiny; you get better at React by getting better at JavaScript.
The only thing I don't like about React is the rapid churn in architecture best-practices (Flux et al). This is in stark contrast to Ember—which nails conventions and tooling but is written far about vanilla JS.
We use React because components are a great abstraction for the web. React components are also very transportable, making them a great addition to integrated systems like Rails.
I like to focus on transferable skills. I don't want to be a Backbone/Ember/Angular/whatever developer. I want to be a good JavaScript developer. React makes that happen.
I love how Reactjs is getting more and more popular, i was yearning for something of quality to reach the top in the js world this days, and React seems like a very good competitor. And what i like most of it, is as simple as jQuery.
React has te philosophy "It jusy works", and people love this
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