> I am not so up to date with frontend dev but what's with the hate towards React these days?
HN is rarely the place to read constructive comments about JavaScript and frontend development.
Personally I've been developing web apps for 10 years (with technologies such as Spring, ASP.NET, CakePHP, Symfony, Django, jQuery, Backbone.js, Angular 1) and I quite enjoy React. I think it makes my job easier and I feel productive with it.
HN is rarely the place to read constructive comments about JavaScript and frontend development.
Personally I've been developing web apps for 10 years (with technologies such as Spring, ASP.NET, CakePHP, Symfony, Django, jQuery, Backbone.js, Angular 1) and I quite enjoy React. I think it makes my job easier and I feel productive with it.
Also, TypeScript is awesome.