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by capableweb 1118 days ago
Looks like MVC/MVVC, something that has been available to do in JS since long time ago (Backbone.js was a popular option for doing a modified version of this). Or I'm missing something obvious. Care to explain a bit more in detail?
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petilon 1118 days ago
Backbone.js used 2-way data binding. Some people mistakenly think MVC implies 2-way data binding. It does not.

The point here is that you can write maintainable, clean, efficient JavaScript web apps without the load of complexity added by React.

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capableweb 1117 days ago
> Backbone.js used 2-way data binding.

No, Backbone.js doesn't do 2-way data binding, although some certainly made it do that. But it doesn't by default, it has a 1-way data binding (the UI updates when the model changes, but doesn't update the model automatically when the UI changes).

> Some people mistakenly think MVC implies 2-way data binding. It does not.

What? Who does that? I certainly didn't and I haven't heard anyone in my +decade of web development.

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petilon 1117 days ago
Famously, a Facebook engineer declare on stage that MVC doesn't scale. Later it turned out that she was talking about one specific implementation of MVC that used 2-way data binding. She assumed that 2-way data binding is part and parcel of MVC, because that's all she had seen.
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