Comment by eyelidlessness

3 years ago

So, this seems to be at least partly related to early introduction of Blocks[1] features. If so, and assuming that several of Blocks features are implemented with React, it makes some sense that they’d broaden adoption of React overall. You can use React for smaller isolated parts of a mostly client-static/server-rendered page, but it’s not typical on a page which is already as highly interactive as GH repos are (even if that interactivity is not immediately obvious).

I personally wouldn’t pick React for, well, anything under my personal control. But it’s a sensible choice for the features they describe at their scale, and a sensible choice for their repo experience generally. I’ve seen some comments about bugginess in navigation etc, but none that don’t sound familiar from their Rails implementation. Hopefully with some bugs ironed out this will be bug compatible or better.