In the last year and a half of working in React, easily my favorite thing about working with React isn’t specific to React. It’s the idea of a directly consumable components. Ultimately, this is why I’m so excited about diving into web components, because they are native to the web and interoperable with different JS frameworks.
An important essay on the tectonic shift that componenitized front-end development, à la React, has wrought on the front-end design/development space and how Brad Frost carved out a space between the "front of the front-end" and the "back of the front-end".
I share his optimism for native web components as a way out of the React-specific morass.