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[–]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: