React came with a nice and small interface that work well with the DOM. It was pretty innovative and solved one of the biggest pain points. I agree that becaus

React came with a nice and small interface that work well with the DOM. It was pretty innovative and solved one of the biggest pain points. I agree that because it just works on the View, it has been easy for people to adopt it. The support of Facebook helped to make it shine in the "a new frontend framework a month" reality. Now the great documentation, great articles and great component already built for you make React a very compelling piece of software to use. At the same time I agree with who says that today if we look only at the simplicity of the interface and performance, there are a few better libraries. MarkoJs and Vue for example.