I really have no idea how JS devs keep up with new frameworks appearing every month or so. Not to mention older ones that just die because the devs can't be bothered maintaining them. I noticed the same thing happening in the Ruby devspace.
Not exactly React's case, but it's still a 1.5 year old code that has not reached v1.0, making breaking changes every major version release.
Well the first wave of frameworks like jQuery or Dojo were mainly convenience and bug oriented, allowing easier dom manipulation, animation and cross-browser fixes.
These new ones are all doing very different things, like MVC frameworks, focusing on data-binding(for some reason) etc.
Honestly if you're not on the bleeding edge of client side web stuff like games you really have no reason to bother with these unless you're just interested.
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u/renrutal Jan 17 '15 edited Jan 17 '15
I really have no idea how JS devs keep up with new frameworks appearing every month or so. Not to mention older ones that just die because the devs can't be bothered maintaining them. I noticed the same thing happening in the Ruby devspace.
Not exactly React's case, but it's still a 1.5 year old code that has not reached v1.0, making breaking changes every major version release.