I respectfully disagree. You'd need flux when you have too many stores talking to each other. Not every app becomes complicated enough to warrant that. You can get started with using an EventEmitter based Store and later refactor into actions and dispatchers if required.

And React is not just the 'V' in MVC. I've seen everyone repeating it (including the official docs), and I'm still not sure what it is trying to say. I wrote about it in a previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8653517