A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”
A lot of Abramov's responses do refute the original points, but they also betray how much cognitive overhead is required to play in React's ecosystem.The guy used Redux, I'm sure, because he knew he needed to manage state somehow - and the articles he found probably pointed him there (rather than vanilla component state)He knew he wanted some sort of routing system, found react router, was got a bit scared by how quickly it has been moving lately - and also, likely, how many existing articles about it are somewhat outdatedEtc