I haven't found a JavaScript framework that truly makes things easy. I've been a developer for a long time, going back even before the web itself, and a lot of the older technology was pretty easy in comparison to what we have today for web development.
My impression of React is actually quite positive; it solves a real problem in a highly performant way and with a relatively good model. But it is still pretty low-level to me; even if you add in a dozen or so other libraries.
My needs are fairly different from Facebook or most startups -- I don't work on a single highly optimized application -- I build a new application every few months (and maintain all of the previous ones). The current set of JS frameworks don't do a lot to help me.
My impression of React is actually quite positive; it solves a real problem in a highly performant way and with a relatively good model. But it is still pretty low-level to me; even if you add in a dozen or so other libraries.
My needs are fairly different from Facebook or most startups -- I don't work on a single highly optimized application -- I build a new application every few months (and maintain all of the previous ones). The current set of JS frameworks don't do a lot to help me.