"React has its place, and I mean Backbone still works and is a fucking amazing library."
Then went on a mini rant about how people abandon libraries because they're new and shiny and its not because they're bad or deficient in any way - which is why he used his Backbone example. It's still awesome, it still works incredibly well and is still very much supported by a large, well informed community.
Then of course, he went back to telling us how awesome ReactJS was and why we should want to try it and use it for our projects.
Also, everything of any size I've seen written in backbone turned into an unmaintainable mess.
As for the unmaintainable part, I couldn't disagree more. Maybe you've worked with poor programmers?
Most of the unmaintainable comes from it being a lighter weight frame work so devs often fall back to jquery. This is OK if you can figure out exactly where they added that trigger. Way to often that is overly hard. It could be pages away.
And yes, most of my coworkes are poor programmers. Saddly that is the world we live in and I like frameworks that make them a little easier to live with.
To be fair, that's somewhat due to the fact that I mostly encounter them in consulting arrangements, and I don't know that any of the other frameworks are much better in this respect. I think I've just gotten spoiled by doing most of my work in Rails, a mature opinionated framework.
You can say that again. I used it for a pretty decent sized project and I'm not sure if it added any value. It doesn't do anything.
5-10 years ago mostly everything was server side, and js was mostly for cosmetic stuff.
Magento is non-boring in the same way a plane crash is.