At first I was pretty sold on react too.

Now I'm trying to figure out if the bad parts in Angular are worst than the bad parts in React. I don't have an answer yet.

The only thing I'm sure is that the virtual-DOM thing is a good idea and most frameworks are likely to converge here.

>are worst than the bad parts in React

Which are...?

I was fairly sold on react/flux after trying it because it is very simple and you can build very quickly. I've been trying Mercury.js over the last week as I thought the 'cycle' of flux/react was a bit more than necessary. Your front-end guy might be sold on Mercury next.

Looks very clean, thanks for bringing this up. It might be a good cultural fit for Clojure devs, which is why I'm going to have a closer look.

To save the next guy some googling:

https://github.com/Raynos/mercury

I did initially think the cycle of flux was a bit too much, but since having to have actions be created from various sources, etc, I've come to realise that it's actually a really good balance.

Having a glance at Mercury. Looks interesting, but react is working so well for my projects I'd need a damn good reason to give it up.