The author is obviously mislead :-) The reason why React is great is that it allows you to specify a big part of your DOM like a functional programmer would, ma

The author is obviously mislead :-) The reason why React is great is that it allows you to specify a big part of your DOM like a functional programmer would, making much of your code cleaner and more understandable. Especially if you don't program it in Javascript, but for example in Scala. Now an ecosystem of reusable web components? Not even the link he gives for that is relevant anymore.