When React came on to the scene it was heralded as a way to create instantly responsible web pages. It did this with a virtual document object model (VDOM) which mirrored the content of the web page, ran API operations in the background, and synchronized it with the actual page display. I found it interesting but hesitated to jump in because it was developed by Facebook. It is currently by far and away the most popular framework for interactive site. This article suggests that the age of React may be ending, not because of any association with Facebook, but to make speed and interaction improvements. Via John Allsopp, who notes "finding developers who know vanilla JavaScript and not just the frameworks was an 'unexpected difficulty.''
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