>You can do a fairly complex system by yourself with a simpler scheme because you have a mental model of how things are organized. It's when you throw more deve

>You can do a fairly complex system by yourself with a simpler scheme because you have a mental model of how things are organized. It's when you throw more developers into the mix that you run into issues. I think that's a fair point. And I think others have remarked that it illustrates Conway's Law.[1] For a front end like Facebook's, that has numerous moving parts, developed by different teams scattered all over the world, and those parts have to fit together and work together in combinations that may not even be foreseeable, then a framework like React may be the only possible way it could be successful. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law