> I know I, and most developers I know, dropped Backbone/Knockout/whatever instantly to use React because it was so obviously better. You skipped a huge step.

> I know I, and most developers I know, dropped Backbone/Knockout/whatever instantly to use React because it was so obviously better. You skipped a huge step. There was angular before react. Which was horribly bloated and over complicated. People wanted something simpler. React, with it's facebook clout won in the end.