Right. CommonJS is great, I actually like it more than ES6 modules. But even with CommonJS you still need the bundler and the build step. You can get data bind

Right. CommonJS is great, I actually like it more than ES6 modules. But even with CommonJS you still need the bundler and the build step. You can get data binding in React with MobX, which pretty much gets you on par with Vue: https://mobx.js.org/getting-started.html https://mobx.js.org/getting-started.html . If you don't like how anemic setState is, and don't like the boilerplate / straightjacket of Redux, MobX is the way to go. Admittedly, React's simpler options are harder to find :)