On: React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Eno...

[orthoganol]

What?? How dare you question React?

In all seriousness, I've already had to rewrite a codebase because an inexperienced programmer (less than 2 years professional) chose it for a use case that wasn't even appropriate, and he did a terrible job implementing it correctly. My team that took over wasn't happy.

If programmers didn't do stuff solely because it's cool, then that would have been a day back on that project.

[sgarman → orthoganol]

This has nothing to do with react and everything to do with the implementation.

[orthoganol → sgarman]

It had everything to do with the point OP made, how a lot of programmers do things simply because it's trendy.

(And yes, there are cases where React is a bad choice, like with said project)