De facto standards are web browser standards - and react is not one. Web Components are. If your friends at work never heard about polymer than maybe its about

De facto standards are web browser standards - and react is not one. Web Components are. If your friends at work never heard about polymer than maybe its about time to read about standards and browser API's that are being implemented - it is part of the job to learn. Good engineers do this. And lets remember like VueJS, Angular 2.x, Aurelia that use some parts of standards that polymer builds on are also popular. React is very popular today, like jquery was in the past. It is already visible that things are in the flux. You just project a bubble around you. Next 5 years we will be discussing the next cool thing, the trick is - most of polymer is being implemented inside browsers already. I've seen this pattern so many times over last 20 years...