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Totally disappointed with this announcement. Facebook is making billions of dollars of profit but can't keep up the lights at Parse. I will think twice to jump

Totally disappointed with this announcement. Facebook is making billions of dollars of profit but can't keep up the lights at Parse. I will think twice to jump on these platforms next time. Now, I am more sceptical of using ReactJS, ReactNative and other stuff from the FB spearheads. Perhaps a high time to learn typescript and angular2.

adamors 11y ago
You should be skeptical of every third party service/platform by now.
codeisawesome 11y ago
ReactJS is a no-no from the get go. Facebook's Patent grant on what is supposed to be an "open source product" is ridiculous: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS. "If you ever start a patent conflict with Facebook in court, (worse but even more likely:) or if Facebook starts a patent litigation against you, you LOSE all your rights to use React in ANY product throughout your company and MUST stop using it at once in your code!" Imagine how that can bring a team down. If folks know of anything out there that works like React (I like the ideas, including JSX) but isn't hobbled simply by mis-virtue of being "backed" by the characterless evil that is Facebook, kindly enlighten me, I will use it. I'm actually wondering if the new "open source" Parse code will have the same Patent horror built-in, and if yes that's even worse considering backends can be even more complicated and important part of a company's infra. Also, I'm sure there are people saying "hey, your work may not be significant enough to cause a Patent violation with Facebook so you and the majority of library users are safe". Sure, that is likely true. But it's about the principle.
- codeisawesome 11y ago
  Here's an answer I found: Vidom (https://github.com/dfilatov/vidom https://github.com/dfilatov/vidom) It's faster than React or Angular 2 in one benchmark methodology: http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=218 http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=218

adamors 11y ago

You should be skeptical of every third party service/platform by now.

codeisawesome 11y ago

ReactJS is a no-no from the get go. Facebook's Patent grant on what is supposed to be an "open source product" is ridiculous: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS. "If you ever start a patent conflict with Facebook in court, (worse but even more likely:) or if Facebook starts a patent litigation against you, you LOSE all your rights to use React in ANY product throughout your company and MUST stop using it at once in your code!" Imagine how that can bring a team down. If folks know of anything out there that works like React (I like the ideas, including JSX) but isn't hobbled simply by mis-virtue of being "backed" by the characterless evil that is Facebook, kindly enlighten me, I will use it. I'm actually wondering if the new "open source" Parse code will have the same Patent horror built-in, and if yes that's even worse considering backends can be even more complicated and important part of a company's infra. Also, I'm sure there are people saying "hey, your work may not be significant enough to cause a Patent violation with Facebook so you and the majority of library users are safe". Sure, that is likely true. But it's about the principle.

codeisawesome 11y ago
Here's an answer I found: Vidom (https://github.com/dfilatov/vidom https://github.com/dfilatov/vidom) It's faster than React or Angular 2 in one benchmark methodology: http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=218 http://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=218