After a Decade of React, Is Frontend a Post-React World Now?

July 26, 2024

Given how dominant React has become in the frontend development ecosystem since Oscon 2014, in this article I’ll revisit the concepts behind React and determine how well they’ve aged. This is especially important in 2024, when major software products like Microsoft Edge have begun to explore what I’m calling a post-React approach to web development (the Microsoft Edge team is calling it “HTML-first”). Also, non-React frameworks like Svelte and Solid offer increasingly viable alternatives to frontend developers.

Source: After a Decade of React, Is Frontend a Post-React World Now? – The New Stack

A decade since React’s real arrival on the web development stage, Richard McManus revisits its original motivations and insiders how they stack up today.