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It's worth clarifying that Isaac, the engineer behind Draft.js, also basically built the entire thing himself. He did it inside a large company of course, but it was his labour of love for a long, long time.

This is the type of cool stuff you get to work on at Facebook, come work with us :-)

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That's interesting, thanks for sharing.

After dropping thousands of Parse.com devs in the middle of the desert (albeit giving each a small bottle of water), you won't find many loving fans of the FB around here...

Bit dramatic, don't you think? The parse.com shutdown was done very professional, and many people seem to be totally in love with React.

Maybe dramatic, but it did turn me into an anti-FB evangelist. If Parse did not align with FB's core there where other options than shutting it down (sell, split-off, turn it into a foundation, etc) but the fact that they just closed like that, disregarding its thousands of users, dropping tons of labor and cash, seems more of a signal of what exactly is going on behind the wall. My take is that services like Parse empower small shops/tiny startups and that is exactly what goes against FB's all-involving growth/power strategy. Maybe React will be like that too: so you want to develop FB (or Whatsapp) apps? You MUST use React...

We'll see how this plays out.

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