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# Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 29 min read · 111 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

React Part 1: An intro about music, defaults, and bubbles. Josh Collinsworth blog post: Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React. Collinsworth: You can keep listening to the same music for the rest of life for life.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiquated-react>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@anam0927** · 4 upvotes

> Thanks a lot for this blog!
>
> As a React developer who started her front-end journey with React, I always heard about all these other and often new frameworks but never understood the need to try them out.
>
> Reading this makes me want to try them to build some stuff and see how much better are they really compared to React, which I have been using non-stop for almost three years now.

**@kkurko** · 1 upvotes

> I highly recommend reading this article to everyone who is in the React world. It is a great overview of things that can be helpful for shaping your own opinion.
>
> I think the "leap adoption" model presented at the end of the article is pretty accurate and this is why React will be used for I don't know how long - there are options that are better than React, but being just "better than React" is not enough for the next leap:
>
> ![Screenshot 2023-08-13 at 09.59.33](https://res.cloudinary.com/daily-now/image/upload/s--fwRM21qP--/f_auto,q_auto/v1/ugc/content_a826544f-a7f3-46c4-a089-9b21c468091f)

**@haku** · 1 upvotes

> Hottest of takes

**@mohamedreda11** · 0 upvotes

> That's a great article, thank you!

**@vahe\_sevachyan** · 0 upvotes

> Nicely written and explained concepts.

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