Having worked on a small/medium React application after stepping back once the work was complete it began to dawn on me that React wasn't the holy grail of web development. The number of packages needed in order to glue parts together, the managing of state at times is just confusing and on boarding new team members can be painful. Not to mention the constant battle with updating packages and API churn of these packages. But what React does have is an incredible community and a very large backing (Facebook). There is also some very intelligent people working on React (https://twitter.com/dan_abramov, https://twitter.com/schrockn, https://twitter.com/soprano to name a few)
The idea of Elm (http://elm-lang.org/) excites me greatly but then again what's to say that Elm will be dead in a years time? My question, is there a framework out there that mixes the better parts of React (virtual dom, large community), the idea of functional programming and a server side aspect to build the back end in one package?
The idea of Elm (http://elm-lang.org/) excites me greatly but then again what's to say that Elm will be dead in a years time? My question, is there a framework out there that mixes the better parts of React (virtual dom, large community), the idea of functional programming and a server side aspect to build the back end in one package?