With Reflux or similar, you have everything you need. Simple to build UI, simple to hookup to backend, simple to dynamically update backend and front end based

With Reflux or similar, you have everything you need. Simple to build UI, simple to hookup to backend, simple to dynamically update backend and front end based on change or events on data. When you say it's not a "framework" I don't even understand what you mean by "framework". If you mean a system that locks you into one way of doing things and is hard to integrate with other tools, then by all means, it's not a framework, and then I don't want it anyway.