Note that React is enforcing functional programming principples. Stateles and immutable objects by default. Thats was not how it was done in 1988.. In react the

Note that React is enforcing functional programming principples. Stateles and immutable objects by default. Thats was not how it was done in 1988.. In react the views doest fetch new data... The whole view is regenerated when there is new data. In a functional style. But i agree you could fit React in the MVC pattern. Only the view is purely functional.