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A Historical Reference of React Criticism

zachleat.com/web/react-critici

There have been a number of criticisms levied at the React project over the years, some of them handled and some of them still wavering in the wind. In this post, I’ll summarize the ones that are most prominent in my memory as a way of maintaining a record (primarily for my own use but maybe you’ll find it useful too).

Zach LeathermanA Historical Reference of React Criticism—zachleat.com
More from Zach Leatherman :11ty:
ThomasAPowell

@zachleat June 2016 seems like when they knew, but did very little to dispell conventional dev beliefs.

@thomasapowell dang, good find. Any mention of performance on that right version?

@zachleat @thomasapowell I often dig this out of the wayback machine when people (wrongly) assert that "the React team never said VDOM was fast"