Tech Stack Roundup #4: May 2017

Our top picks from May give a lot of love to React, the JavaScript library that it seems like every company is adopting to replace their current frameworks. In fact, Slack, a longtime fan of jQuery, just rebuilt its emoji picker in React. But because trending and popular doesn’t always mean the best, we included a popular post detailing how to switch from React to Vue.js, and the reasons why you‘d want to make the switch.Data stores were also a hot point of conversation this month, namely Apache Kafka. Both Reddit and CloudFlare showed how important Kafka is for creating solid data pipelines.