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React has been designed to work in Facebook's codebase, to build large features worked on by many experienced developers. The fact that it is intuitive for begi

by vjeux 12y ago

React has been designed to work in Facebook's codebase, to build large features worked on by many experienced developers. The fact that it is intuitive for beginners is a side-effect, not the primary objective.

elwell 12y ago
Yes + Instagram web (which is of course part of FB)
pestaa 12y ago
Don't forget that Facebook invested a what I would call inproportionally lot in the PHP ecosystem primarily to let new employees pick up the pace as fast as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if React was kept intentionally newbie-friendly, too.
- yazaddaruvala 12y ago
  While it isn't impossible for a complex library to become popular, I would be very surprised if a library/framework wasn't kept intentionally "newbie-friendly".