If you follow the undercurrent of the JavaScript community, there seems to be a divide as of late. It goes back over a decade. Really, this sort of strife has always been. Perhaps it is human nature.

Whenever a popular framework gains traction, you inevitably see people comparing it to rivals. I suppose that is to be expected. Everyone has a particular favorite.

Lately, the framework everyone loves (to hate?) is React. You often see it pitted against others in head-to-head blog posts and feature comparison matrices of enterprise whitepapers. Yet a few years ago, it seemed like jQuery would forever be king of the hill.

Frameworks come and go. To me, what is more interesting is when React — or any JS framework for that matter — gets pitted against the programming language itself. Because of course, under the hood, it is all built atop JS.

#javascript #react #react-native