A cool thing about react is that it’s easy to reason about as well. The reconciliation algorithm is fundamentally pretty simple and there isn’t any magic happen

A cool thing about react is that it’s easy to reason about as well. The reconciliation algorithm is fundamentally pretty simple and there isn’t any magic happening. It can get confusing to track down unexpected renders when you think the result of the algorithm should be different, but that’s not really an issue with react so much a the nature of managing complex state, memoization algorithms which potentially use different diffing strategies, and logic which might be mutating state in ways you don’t quite expect, and so on. People criticize these front end libraries but I’m still impressed by how well state management has been integrated into such extensible and scalable view layers.