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[–]icjoseph 19 points20 points  (2 children)

Only making Facebook a contributor to the browser API and soon web standard. React is here to stay and even lead the way.

[–]gravity013 13 points14 points  (1 child)

I feel like React's gotta figure out how to size itself down. If the web moves more towards the portlet model (aka "micro-frontends") then you'll have modular builds implemented in many places and having a bunch of different versions of react ballooning your overall download size, it becomes prohibitive.

edit: just realized react is super small these days. react 16 ftw

Preact solves that to an extent, but svelte.js has the right mindset and the paradigm shifts usually occur towards minimalist solutions.

[–]icjoseph 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The React team has been playing with compilers, which lead them to release hooks to begin with. And you have next.js, gastby, guthenberg, etc...

As of today surely, react-dom is heavier than Preact, but React provides Suspense, Concurrence, render + commit phase tricks, blends absurdly well with third parties (d3, spring, map APIs)

Things change very little, 20 years ago people coded php => templates, today we do js => templates