Javascript is a bad language. Raging against the constantly improving toolchain and language development is ironic. Also, React has been out for three years now, if you still don't understand it you probably shouldn't be demonizing it.
Embracing garbage blogs like this is why Hacker News gets so much ridicule in the real world. Learn from the mistakes of others, the "NodeJS is Cancer" author removed his article and apologized, saying that kind of discourse (much like the tone of this article) is bad for everyone and not the way forward.
I sincerely feel bad for anyone who has to work with this person on a team. This kind of emotional ranting against frustration with evolving tools is an engineer personality red flag.