the funny thing is, this means that the patent grant previously shipped with react had basically zero relevance to using react (even after a patent dispute).
Yes, as was pointed out by the many that continued to use React.
I don't understand how this can be a patent. I seem to be infringing on the patent every day whenever I try to navigate through xmls and json files with a friendly API. Can anyone shed some light on how this patent is innovative?
it's a commonly held view that software patents are almost entirely garbage.
you can remove the almost from that sentence.
There is a patent application associated with React.