I think some people just don't get React. The beautiful thing about it is that it's really simple. Yes you create components but it's not just about components.

I think some people just don't get React. The beautiful thing about it is that it's really simple. Yes you create components but it's not just about components. The idea that you can treat your app ass a function and just feed it one global state is what makes it so powerfull imo. That being said there are a lot of paradoxes with react. For example it was created with functional ideas in mind and the functional comunity loves it, but at the same time i have the impression that the facebook deeloppers building it just didn't got it for a long time, and its still sinking in. Just looking at how there are classes for everything and all. It looked mor OO at the begining. And the whole flux, one would think they dont't understand the power of simplicity completly. Then there is the problem of finding the correct patterns to work with it. A lot of times you have OO people that start writing js software and when you look at the code they produce you feel like crying. Then they blame react because they just don't know how to think different.