Somebody has to say it.

React is a lot more trouble that it's worth and has fewer good ideas than people give it credit for. It's a great tool for any other context that's not the browser, and the only reason its the new cool kid in town is because Facebook made it so, and because x-rays went nowhere.

And by x-rays I meant x-tags

it's not a great tool for anything. all this js frameworks have serious limitations for anything beyond very simple apps.

@superuser "serious limitations" interesting. Give me a few edge cases of what that would be.

how about the inability to just set a service and do tasks in background? I can't think any kind of app that works well w/o a background service.

@superuser Service worker works well for background tasks. There's already a bunch of microlibraries to make it easier to use, from offline functionality, optimistic UI to distribute rendering to service worker threads.

React is just a library for reusable components, nothing more. You shouldn't expect it to do more than its main functionality.