[skydhash]

State can be easy when you’re talking about document-based app (forms and content). But it can become quite hard when talking about some long lived interactions and the state diagram becomes difficult to draw. React (the library, not the ecosystem) make it easy to deal with that case. Otherwise you have to write bespoke reactive code. Not that difficult, bit it’s buy VS build.

[austin-cheney]

What about an OS GUI with windows an various different types of utilities? State was still just as simple. The content and utility of the application had no bearing on how state management worked.

[skydhash]

Reactivity is just one pattern to help manage state. We have observable (which is just reactivity in another cloth), Entity-Component, View-Model (also Presenter), etc,…