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"one of React's dependencies"

Which one? There are... several. (someone posted this here a while ago, and it's lovely to look at)

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native

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That's react-native. React (http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react) does have... several: 5 of them.

Guess I'm wrong then! Thanks for the correction.

The point is that it's not my problem. Those things, together, comprise "React" as far as my application is concerned. React being a huge project which millions of dollars have been poured into, and which billions of dollars probably ride on, is going to be kept working, one way or another. As long as it continues to provide a functioning interface for my code, that's all I care about.

The problem isn't just what you see, the problem is sustainability for the whole ecosystem as a whole. FB has a lot of money but how do you know they won't determine at some point this is not sustainable and in two years you have to learn some other framework?

I don't know if you realize how massive the React user-base is at this point. That would be like saying, "how do you know they won't determine at some point python is not sustainable and in two years you have to learn some other language?" I mean, I guess. But even in that scenario, I'm sure the hundreds of companies who depend on it would pick up the slack.

It happened to Angularjs. It didn't die just stopped evolving in the 1.x branch. Everyone had to accept 2.x or move on or stop evolving.

That React has a lot of dependencies isn't a problem in itself. At this point, React is stable. It's backed and relied upon by a gigantic company called Facebook. It's used by millions of developers around the world.

If there's a major problem with one of React's dependencies, it will be promptly fixed.

React doesn't have a lot of dependencies. The person you are responding to linked to React Native, which is an entirely different thing.

I think it's a bit misguided to think that code quality won't be visible to users. As someone who has used both React and React Native, the quality of these two projects from a user perspective is worlds apart, and I have little doubt that their different approaches to dependencies are partly to blame for that.

That's not React, that's React Native.

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