LISKOV'S GUN: THE PARALLEL EVOLUTION OF REACT AND WEB COMPONENTS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Web components, though technically useful, have been hampered by over-aggressive promotion and a lack of early support from major browser vendors. Meanwhile, React gained popularity by promising a magical solution to UI development and by inadvertently commodifying developers. This situation has led to a schism within the web development community, with three factions: standards-oriented developers, web component framework implementers, and other reactive framework developers.