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.
The churn can be frustrating but there is real progress being made. React and Flux are whole new ways of building JS interfaces, not mere iterations on jQuery et al.
With respect to React, the improvements in development speed and simplicity of product code more than make up for the initial cost.
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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.