UIs Are Not Pure Functions of the Model – React.js and Cocoa Side by Side (2018)

> When I first saw React.js, I had a quick glance and thought that it was cool, they finally figured out how to do a Cocoa-like MVC UI framework in JavaScript.

> Overall, though, the use of a true MVC UI framework seemed like a great step forward

The author keeps saying 'MVC' as if it ever made any sense in the context of React. The old react docs used to quip that react was the v of mvc, until this notion was scraped entirely; and although one might perhaps suggest that props and templating is a v, and state is perhaps an m, there has never been anything concrete one could point it and argue that it is a c.