> This also makes me so, so thankful that I am a Rails developer. React is surely good for certain things, but developer happiness and productivity i think are

> This also makes me so, so thankful that I am a Rails developer. React is surely good for certain things, but developer happiness and productivity i think are not among them. I assume you haven't done much front-end engineering then. Because for all of the many legitimate gripes with React, developer happiness and productivity is one of its strengths. Going from something like manual Backbone views to React components was a breath of fresh air when React was released (there are now other frameworks that'll do the same, but still). Rails is not a front-end framework, so basically you're saying "I am thankful I am a backend developer, not a frontend one".