[Touche]

In React your component is a class. The `render` function is a pure function, but the component itself is a state machine. This is why I prefer Mercury[1]

[1]https://github.com/Raynos/mercury

[danabramov]

Also Cycle: https://github.com/staltz/cycle/

I don't prefer them over React, but I agree they make this stuff easier. React Hot Loader is a hack after all ;-)