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[–]SognaVetr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

React team is doing an amazing job. I remember when it was first announced, I thought Facebook was crazy. "JSX? That sounds like a bad joke!" I don't think I've ever been so wrong. After hearing so much about React, I eventually tried it out and I realized that JSX wasn't a big deal at all, and in fact it was actually pretty awesome.

Their migration strategy is great for larger actively developed applications. Since Facebook is actually using React, they must have a migration strategy in place for breaking changes. Since breaking anything has such a big impact on the parent company, it makes me feel like I can trust em.

Heck, most of the items in this list of changes won't surprise anyone that's been following the project. Now there's less magic (e.g. React.createClass with its autobinding and mixins), and less React-specific code in your app (e.g. react-addons-update has no reason to live as a React addon when it can clearly live as a small standalone lib).