[whitefish]

Redux is unnecessary complexity. Anyone considering it, please do yourself a favor: check out an MVC framework and see how simple it is. Remember, when React first came out they described at as "React is the V in MVC." Adopt MVC in your project and watch your productivity soar.

Note: Some people believe that MVC implies two-way data binding. This is false.

[scottmf]

Trying to shoehorn MVC into the front-end is also unnecessary complexity.

You can get very far with setState before you need a library like Redux to manage application state. And you can get even further if you use something like Apollo or Relay to handle data fetching. Then your productivity will really soar!

(For me, React + Apollo feels as magic as Rails did ten years ago.)

[vletmixutechre]

I've spent most of my time as a back end developer, occasionally dabbling in some front end code in various MVC frameworks. I always hated it and found it to be tedious.

I recently took up react+redux for a new project and for the first time feel like I'm developing for the UI in a way that makes sense and feel like I'm able to accomplish things way faster than with other clunky frameworks.

[whitefish]

Which Javascript MVC framework did you use? Some people who used Angular hated it and conclude that MVC is horrible. No, Angular is horrible, not MVC.

[vletmixutechre]

Yeah, I spent some time with Angular as well as Backbone/Marionette