> If they really want to crush little ol' me, I'm sure their legal team can find something in their existing patent warchest that would apply to React.
Yes, but also to your non-React code, right?
Like...seriously, what patent do you think they might have that somehow only applies to React and not all the other modern frameworks that have been busily copying React?
Of what? Patents are public; link me the patent you think they'd sue you for infringing. :)