MVC is dead – what comes next? – Part 2

The first part of this series gave an overview of the key concepts and listed some of the main advantages of using functional reactive programming techniques in UI development. Future articles we will focus on different components that are involved, starting today with the State component, a key ingredient of functional reactive UI programming.

MVC vs FRP Data Structures
In MVC we differentiate between domain model and UI state, in functional reactive UI programming everything is part of the State.

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MVC is dead – what comes next?

React.js, Elm, Cycle.js, and other UI frameworks introduced a new way of building user interfaces. By applying principles from functional reactive programming to UI development, they even changed how we think about user interfaces. In no time, these approaches have simply smashed the seemingly inevitable dominance of MVC and its siblings (MVP, MVVM etc.). This article, which is the first in a series, will give a brief introduction into this new way of building UIs and list some of the advantages it has over traditional approaches. These factors are so strong, that in my opinion there is a good chance that we are right now witnessing the end of the MVC-era.

Graph showing the cyclic dependency between DOM Driver, ActionCreator, Updater, and View()
Concept of functional reactive UI development

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