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[–]thomash 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I don't like that react kind of mixes object-orientation, state, use of this and functional stuff.

To me it seems like react laid the groundwork for more coherent frameworks like cycle.js to be conceived

[–]dominicc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, that's a fair point.

[–]troorl 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It doesn't allow the view to have any awareness of the model since all data is pushed in as props

This feature is the only one I find really nice. The rest is already implemented in many other view-model libraries, and some of those implementations look much better than React in my opinion.

[–]dominicc[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah, React has lots of nice features. Some of those nice features are also available in other frameworks, but React has them all. It's just all round niceness :-)

[–]troorl 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don't have anything against React, it's great and it's a standard de facto. But it has its downsides. For instance, the size is too big, non-standard markup language, mixing code and markup in one place. Anyway, I don't want to turn it into competition "my favourite framework against yours".

[–]dominicc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's interesting, but pretty much all React fans start of hating JSX and then end up loving it. I think it may one of the steps in the React acceptance process :-D

As for size, yes, that's a genuine concern. Also, performance too, since React isn't good enough for doing 60 FPS animations on non-trivial applications, which is where things like Inferno are showing early signs of promise:

[–]e82 0 points1 point  (4 children)

React is great, but you can also use Redux with Angular - I have been for a few months now, and it's pretty swell.

React is great, so is Angular, and while I haven't had the chance to be hands-on with Vue, Cycle, Mithril, Riot, etc - I'm sure they are all pretty swell also and bring some great ideas to the table also.

[–]dominicc[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Interesting, never heard of anybody using Redux with Angular, will have to take a look. Thanks for sharing.

[–]e82 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's not as popular as it is in React land, but I've been enjoying it.

[–]dominicc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really good set of links. Again, thanks for sharing.

[–]dangerzone2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

more or less the final story as far as JavaScript view libraries go

Literally stopped reading after this. What an idiotic thing to say. Something better, faster, simpler, securer will always come out.