This is a pretty silly article. The author makes no real points. He just seems to dislike React because it's not an open standard, and questions Facebook's moti

This is a pretty silly article. The author makes no real points. He just seems to dislike React because it's not an open standard, and questions Facebook's motivations in creating it. He alludes to the existence of actual architectural criticisms and then never states them. The meat of his criticism, to the extent that there is one, is that somehow React's not being a web standard is going to be bad for the open web. Which, if true, would indeed be an important and negative thing. But the author makes literally zero attempt to prove that point, and instead simply says that FB benefits from walled gardens (true, but irrelevant). As far as I can tell, React is detrimental to FB's direct business interests. It's true that FB is a walled garden, but it's also true that React makes it much easier to create nice web experiences in your own garden, on the open web. So perhaps they have shot themselves in the foot there a bit, but that's alright with me.