I don't believe React to be mostly hype. It's so frequently being used by skilled and informed teams that I would consider anyone who make this claim to be ill-

I don't believe React to be mostly hype. It's so frequently being used by skilled and informed teams that I would consider anyone who make this claim to be ill-informed. But the claim and current consensus around web development is that "you should absolutely use a framework built by someone smarter than you or you'll end up shooting yourself in the foot" I find equally ill-informed. Consider these popular libs and then consider how poorly they integrate with each other: jquery, bootstrap, require and knockout. If you are off by a version or two in jquery, then bootstrap will not work. Up the version of jquery and parts of your app will break down. Try to fit libs that aren't modularized or that use hard-coded deps with require. You'll end up rewriting those libs (to get rid of deps you don't need). I feel javascript should be mature enough to use without frameworks. Remember the cutting-and-pasting of the javascript.com era? We're back to that, I feel. I mean, surely there are lots of smart snippets of code or even libs that you want to use in react but can't because the code-snippets or libs aren't following the react architecture. What do you do then? Cut-and-paste those parts that you need and that will fit into react, perhaps?