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		aatd86 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: React vs. Backbone in 2025 Shouldn't a state change should be purely event driven, and not dispatch its own events as side effect? That avoids reetrancy and is an easy rule to adopt...? Or am I misunderstanding the issue?

picardo 38 days ago [–]

You're right about that, but that wasn't common practice at the time. We learned about side-effects from Elm and Flux.

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