[fridgemaster]

Angular 2 works fine out of the box, and already provides a good architecture that noobs struggle to come up with in "freestyle" solutions like React. Angular's bi-directional binding is way superior and simpler to use vs React's mono-directional binding: you can just use bound variables, no need to do complicated setState or use abominations like Redux. Vue also has bi-directional binding. Essentially there are many alternatives that are superior to React, which is where it is mostly because of fame and popularity.

[agrippanux]

You may of not used React in the past few years, but setState fell out of favor a while ago with the release of the useState hook and Redux (which I agree is an abomination) isn't necessary for 95% (imo) cases, again thanks to hooks.

For bound variables you can use MobX or signals in Preact.

[ukuina]

How does something "fall out of favor" in React?

Is it deprecated?

[willio58]

The recommendation for React projects for the past few years has been to write everything using functional components vs the old class-based components. In function-based components, you can only use hooks so useState is that's why the parent comment is referring to.