One of the first React workshops I was a part of was put on by Henrik Joreteg. In the first five minutes he said something along the lines of: "React has its p

One of the first React workshops I was a part of was put on by Henrik Joreteg. In the first five minutes he said something along the lines of: "React has its place, and I mean Backbone still works and is a fucking amazing library." Then went on a mini rant about how people abandon libraries because they're new and shiny and its not because they're bad or deficient in any way - which is why he used his Backbone example. It's still awesome, it still works incredibly well and is still very much supported by a large, well informed community. Then of course, he went back to telling us how awesome ReactJS was and why we should want to try it and use it for our projects.