[ravicious]

You don't really need a framework, one can get pretty far without it. Look up Facebook's Flux examples[1] to see how they're doing it.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/flux/tree/master/examples

[nhunzaker]

I tend to agree. Even as an author of one of the Fluxes (Fluxii?) mentioned, I still think this is the best approach. All of implementations I've seen simply formalize patterns the author was repeating on multiple projects.

(There's also know obligation to use them, the joy of OSS!)