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> I really dislike the way this article presents React as the silver bullet. It didn't read like that to me, I thought the point was they went for a rewrite on
by OJFord 3y ago
> I really dislike the way this article presents React as the silver bullet.
It didn't read like that to me, I thought the point was they went for a rewrite on the new breaking changes major version, expecting specific features to eventually land, were waiting for them, and React had them already.
So it's more (to me) like 1) don't do that; 2) if you're going to do that maybe take a step back and there's something else out there already or that's a better fit.
- dfcowell 3y agoAuthor here. That’s the takeaway I was going for. It could have been any technology. The silver bullet is choosing the right tool for the job. I don’t have an attachment to any particular tech. At the time React was what I knew, and I was coming off the back of building a server side rendered React site when I joined this company. I had a team of JavaScript-focused engineers to work with.