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I can imagine that Facebook and Google liked the way Angular and React allowed for more advanced tracking. But it seems like you're giving too much weight to th
by blowski 3y ago
I can imagine that Facebook and Google liked the way Angular and React allowed for more advanced tracking. But it seems like you're giving too much weight to that as a primary cause.
From my memory of working through this time, it was driven more by UX designers wanting to have ever more "AJAXy" interfaces. I did a lot of freelancing for design agencies 2006 - 2016, and they all wanted these "reactive" interfaces, but building these with jQuery or vanilla JS was a nightmare. So frameworks like JavaScript MVC, Backbone.js, SproutCore, Ember.js were all popping up offering better ways of achieving it. React, Vue and Angular all evolved out of that ecosystem.