>It's interesting that the original appeal of React was that it was "just a view library", but now apparently it's more like a "language".
I feel like that "appeal" was part of the marketing but the designers always wanted to create a new language. I switched a fairly large webapp from Angular to React pretty early on and I remember thinking that Flux (the design) was designed by someone that wished they were programming in OCaml instead. The whole "constants.js" for actions felt like a kind of defeat that they couldn't have unions and pattern matching in JS.
I feel like that "appeal" was part of the marketing but the designers always wanted to create a new language. I switched a fairly large webapp from Angular to React pretty early on and I remember thinking that Flux (the design) was designed by someone that wished they were programming in OCaml instead. The whole "constants.js" for actions felt like a kind of defeat that they couldn't have unions and pattern matching in JS.