React has certainly inspired a huge shift in how we architect frontend web apps, and I think I'd rather view it on those terms instead of just how much you mig

React has certainly inspired a huge shift in how we architect frontend web apps, and I think I'd rather view it on those terms instead of just how much you might buy into React's worldview and all of the libraries that subscribe to it when building your app. React is one particularly well-regarded implementation of a virtual DOM library with one way databinding and ever since then we've seen various flavours of it with innovations of their own: Elm and the architecture that inspired Redux, ReasonML, reflex-frp, CLJS/Om Vue, Cycle.js, Glimmer, etc... React, as far as I know it, was the first for the web and while it might have been well-known in other situations, we were all scrambling around trying to solve the data-binding problem when building anything large scale in JS. In that way, React's impact on the frontend ecosystem is profound much in the way jQuery's impact was back in the darker days, and what that technology has allowed us to do without depending on React itself is significant, much more so than its own ecosystem.