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Discussion on: React Is Eating Itself

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Michael Z

I very much agree with a lot of these points. Redux solves a problem by creating a new one, which leads to another level of abstraction, which in return creates a problem that needs yet another layer of abstraction. There is even a reduce reducers library. Reminds me of joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont...

But, MVC is dead...? Guess what this very platform is running on ;)

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Adam Nathaniel Davis

I would never say that MVC is dead. But 10-12 years ago, it was definitely a full-blown fad. It was one of those catch phrases that devs just spewed to make them sound more knowledgeable.

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Louiszen • Edited

MVC implemented in PHP or .NET is dead because their MVC concept is totally wrong. They still wanted to keep everything in a compiled project but only separate concern in folders, not thinking out of the box that they can actually have 3 projects for M V C.

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Adam Nathaniel Davis

Haha, I hadn't seen that post before, but I love it. "Architecture Astronauts". I'm gonna be using that one. And to think that he wrote that nearly 20 years ago...