Why Facebook Replaced MVC with Flux and React

Meta Developers · Talk · YouTube title: Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook

Why it's here

HN points to it as the original talk that explains the motivation behind React, Flux and Redux, and that sold some commenters on React.

What it covers

Facebook engineers explain why they abandoned the traditional MVC paradigm for a more functional architecture, introducing Flux and React. They use the unread-message-count bug as a case study of the problems of bidirectional data flow at scale.