"You'd have to buy me dinner first"

I think the question should be: "Who will be producing better code after a year?". All other things equal, I thin k the React programmer will be producing better code because react forces you to learn, and get into the habit of, good design patterns like component structure, top down data flow, and if they're using redux, immutable data management. It'll also push you into code bundling, splitting, es6, etc. The vanilla person can do all these things, but they're not pushed into them. So if their motivations, dedications, responsibility etc are all equal, I think React will get the edge.

... depends what mood I'm in

I finally managed to get into Open Shift's developer preview. The new platform is very nice. You get more RAM etc than previously and can allocate that to your pods (previously cartridges) but you get one free project as opposed to three. It's also now linked to your gitHub account and uses that as the repo with webhooks to trigger builds after pushing. Nice

We've just decided to go with Axios. It's very nicely done and fills in gaps that Fetch leaves out (see various stackoverflow discussions on the topic) The thing Fetch has going for it is that it's a polyfill for the standard Fetch api, which means you'll be able to drop the lib as Fetch support grows.