Why Silicon Valley CTOs Are Secretly Moving Away from React | by Coders Stop | in JavaScript in Plain English – Freedium
June 18, 2025
Why Silicon Valley CTOs Are Secretly Moving Away from React”
React isn’t failing because it’s bad. It’s failing because it succeeded too well.”
Those words from a CTO at one of Silicon Valley’s unicorn companies stuck with me. We were having drinks at a tech leadership meetup in Palo Alto — the kind where people speak more freely after the second round. The conversation had turned to frontend architecture, and I’d noticed a pattern in these closed-door conversations that wasn’t reflected in public discourse.While React still dominates job postings, conference talks, and Twitter debates, a quiet shift is happening behind the scenes at many top tech companies. CTOs and engineering leaders are questioning their long-term commitment to React and exploring alternatives — often without public announcements.
It’s merely anecdotal evidence, but it aligns with what critics of React have even saying for some time.
