2009-2014 is a huge timeframe for the web, as mobile compatibility became increasingly important.
Seven years from now we'll probably be talking about how much the web changed for VR/AR - or something new altogether.
Seven years from now we'll probably be talking about how much the web changed for VR/AR - or something new altogether.
The truth is React isn't doing anything that requires new technology, it could've been built in the early 2000's. I guess ideas like Angular taking off are just the natural way of things when you have a big company supporting it. It goes to show though that even the largest companies on the planet sometimes get it wrong (but also get many things right, Google with Golang and Facebook with React). Did it really take 4-5 other inferior frameworks though to see the simplistic idea behind React and build it out? If so, people who see these bad practices happening and are capable of doing something about it should do so immediately, for the sake of the development community.