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by blue_dinner 3698 days ago
If you don't use one and have a complex app, it will eventually turn into a spaghetti mess of callbacks. You will end up writing your own framework that hasn't been battle tested on thousands of sites.

For simple apps, it's probably not needed. The issue also is that you app could be really simple now, but have features added to it regularly making it complex.