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"learn once, write everywhere" - I like the sound of that! But I guess in the spirit of React this is still only the "V" in MVC right? I don't suppose they are planning to broaden the scope to anything other than rendering views. So if you want to use this to build native apps, I guess you are going to have to integrate another cross-platform solution for storage/sensor APIs?

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React is much more than just the V in MVC. It sells itself in that way for presenting the ability of being just exactly that. Thus, it can quite easily coexist with other frameworks. I actually think the established and well known selling points of React, like the Virtual DOM and "V in MVC" are just very nice side effects. The most important thing is the concepts and principles adopted from FRP, which in my opinion makes React a very powerful tool for JavaScript in general, a local optima of what can be done with JS right now.

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