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mhd on June 14, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: React v15.6.0 Released

Never mind any paradigms or anything, I believe a lot of the popularity of Redux boiled down to two things:

1. It was there at the right time, when people started getting serious with React and were looking for a way to structure their data flow.

2. Tooling. Soon after it was released, the author demonstrated a pretty neat hot-reloading utility.

So no matter whether you're really into functional purity or are reminded of Win32 event loops, it was a practical solution.

acemarke on June 14, 2017 [–]

Per the "Win32 event loop" comment, I suspect you're referring to https://bitquabit.com/post/the-more-things-change/ , where the author points out that Flux+React looks an awful lot like a Win32 WndProc function. (HN discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381015 .)

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