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Although the author is biased, he is presenting valid criticism for fundamental flaws that truly make React inferior from a structural standpoint.

Additionally, he presents the framework/language Elm, a library he is not really involved in, as a superior alternative.

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I agree that some points are actually valid (conceptually). However React permits to do useful compromises on purity for practicity.

In Elm you have to hack the system to give the focus to a single input or use an external lib... See https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/issues/4...

The author even anticipated your parent comment's argument and used Elm for this very reason. He seems to make it reasonably clear where Elm's approach is different from that of Cycle.js and still both are preferable to React/Reduct.

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