React-basic: Description of the conceptual model of React
This was insightful to read, I have often wondered what the underlying thinking was with React. I also disagree with it, but... important to know the thinking for sure.  Also helps explain why it's been such a struggle and has been less than obvious to me.<p>I look at react, and I see... shit. As an aside, I'm taking a deep dive reading u on the nuances of JS, so I'm reading along here and I get whats going on at a technical level with the JS; but the actual react code... does not jive with me.<p>Remember when we though SOAP was cool? React kinda feels like that to me. I don't think it really represents a way forward in programming.<p>But you know - I respect that there might be people who totally jive with react, who's brains work differently from mine and see nothing but awesome.<p>This also makes me so, so thankful that I am a Rails developer. React is surely good for certain things, but developer happiness and productivity i think are not among them.