Discussion: React — To Be or Not To Be

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A panel discussion examines React seven years after its release, questioning whether React is still needed and why teams adopted it originally. Participants (engineers from Kasta, GitHub/Microsoft, and Pitch) discuss React’s historical hype, its progression to a productivity plateau and de-facto solution, and whether modern developers or new tools might make React unnecessary for problems it once solved.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:52React history
3. 5:23React’s frontend impact
4. 9:59State problems in React
5. 14:37React ecosystem flaws
6. 20:15Migrating React projects
7. 29:09React optimization
8. 36:15When to use React
9. 46:45Code discipline in React
10. 55:14React future & alternatives
11. 1:03:28Switching from React
12. 1:12:46Broader dev perspective
13. 1:18:03Conclusion

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