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I never understood the craze over React. I tried it, and I didn't like it. It may work for Facebook's use case, but to me it looks like a lot of people are unnecessarily rebuilding their front ends with React just because it's hot.

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A lot of our industry hires based on buzzwords. For web developers, it pays to have React experience in their resume. Doesn't matter if the app they built didn't need it at all.

Depends where, though. I'm based in the South, Alabama, and most of the jobs here want C# or Angular (1x... specifically). I rarely, rarely see React mentioned.

Of those who want JavaScript experience, it's usually followed with "Do you have any .NET experience?"

Yeah same back home in Texas (Houston, not Austin). NYC and SF are different stories :-)

Facebook's use case happens to mirror a great deal of web products currently.

Certainly not in scale.

That's true, but React doesn't directly deal with those problems (and certainly not the parts specific to Facebook).

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