There were a lot of “MVC in JavaScript” frameworks before react. I don’t think that’s really a useful description of react or of the work or idea involved.

Backbone and Marionette were MVC for the web, and they have basically died out. React is a child of the Flux architecture philosophy, also developed by Facebook. [1]

[1] http://fluxxor.com/what-is-flux.html

EDIT: I lied, React came first. Still, they have a lot of similarities, being developed by the same company.

> React is a child of the Flux architecture philosophy

FWIW, this isn't actually the case.

React was first announced in 2013:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(JavaScript_library)

The "Flux Architecture" was first announced a year later, in 2014:

- https://youtu.be/nYkdrAPrdcw

React's original influences were things like Facebook's internal PHP-based UI definition layers:

https://reactjs.org/blog/2016/09/28/our-first-50000-stars.ht...

MVC examples in this article do not represent MVC in Cocoa. E.g. last time I checked cocoa tables were bound to array controllers, which controlled filtering, available actions etc. Not to bare models. Older-style cocoa mvc rendering was also based on the view<->controller connection, which may act as a “store” or do something more sophisticated, depending on what you write in delegate methods. These comparison graphs always involve some “head & shoulders” vs “grey regular shampoo” style narrative.

Well yes: Apple MVC also isn't really MVC. See:

https://blog.metaobject.com/2015/04/model-widget-controller-...

However, sufficiently MVC for the purposes of the post.

The article points at issues with “regular MVC” which do not exist in Cocoa way of doing it. So no, not sufficiently.

None of my articles points at issues with "regular MVC"

Except it's not MVC.

React would be the V in MVC, no?

I mean, even Vue takes its name from that (pronounced "view").

There are no controllers in the react way of doing things, or at least no separation between view and controller if that's your perspective.

Well, the role of Controllers in (real) MVC is actually pretty limited.

At that point you're defining MVC so broadly as to be meaningless.

No, I am using the original definition of MVC.

https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-in...

The React architecture is very different from MVC.