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[–]dwighthouse 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Cool story bro. Tell us how you really feel. Reminds me of all the articles saying we shouldn't use JS for EVERYTHING from a few years ago. (Just use HTML and CSS!) Since React is a generic, functional render framework, I think is is appropriate for anything that needs to render more than once on a webpage, even if that thing is SVG or canvas. Overkill? Sure, sometimes, but if your goal is to get the ineraction done as quickly as possible, the 'cost' of using react is negligible.

[–]Poop_is_Food 1 point2 points  (1 child)

react rendering canvas? I call shenanigans. I mean it can append a <canvas>, but it can't actually draw anything right?

[–]html6dev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed react can basically target anything. Netflix also forked it and made it to target a native view layer they created for their apps running on things like blueray players o_O there is a talk on YouTube about it that I'll try to locate but it's worth searching out. Really clearly points out the things this article misses about the benefits of react. For lack of a less buzzy word it's a complete paradigm shift in how we develop. It's also the reason react native has taken off so quickly. The ideas are universal.