I think many of the "advantages" of ReactJS are just hype
- Immutable data, one directional data flow are easier to learn, understand, harder to break etc. - This isn't anything new, these are just concepts taken from declarative programming. You could always have used those concepts in your JS. They aren't better/worse than imperative programming. That's like saying Haskell is better than C++.
- Two-way binding creates infinite loops! - Umm... not if you're a half-decent programmer. I've worked with complex single page apps for years, even with junior developers, it's never been a problem.
- ReactJS is so much faster - Only in unrealistic benchmarks as this illustrates (Mithril is faster in those benchmarks BTW)
React also has a few major downsides:
- JSX breaks your IDE's error checking and line numbers in error messages (and not using JSX is a pain/verbose)
- Being only the V in MVC leaves out too much. Now you have to patch together a URL router, http/socket communication script, custom solution for managing the model, etc.
- Immutable data, one directional data flow are easier to learn, understand, harder to break etc. - This isn't anything new, these are just concepts taken from declarative programming. You could always have used those concepts in your JS. They aren't better/worse than imperative programming. That's like saying Haskell is better than C++.
- Two-way binding creates infinite loops! - Umm... not if you're a half-decent programmer. I've worked with complex single page apps for years, even with junior developers, it's never been a problem.
- ReactJS is so much faster - Only in unrealistic benchmarks as this illustrates (Mithril is faster in those benchmarks BTW)
React also has a few major downsides:
- JSX breaks your IDE's error checking and line numbers in error messages (and not using JSX is a pain/verbose)
- Being only the V in MVC leaves out too much. Now you have to patch together a URL router, http/socket communication script, custom solution for managing the model, etc.