I'm not sure what your complaint is about computed properties. You should either store the computed data in the reducer, compute it on the fly in render, or use

I'm not sure what your complaint is about computed properties. You should either store the computed data in the reducer, compute it on the fly in render, or use componentWillReceiveProps and/or setState. Your problem isn't needing to make React behave like Vue, you need to let React behave like React. The second point I was trying to make is you don't have to do it that way in React. React is a perfectly functional framework without Redux or the "container" model. That style became popular because you're enforcing that the majority of your components are dumb [1] which is a pretty useful thing for a large project. But again, these aren't problems with React and if it's giving you this much heartburn it's worth bringing up with your team because it sounds like something's going wrong. 1. https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/smart-and-dumb-components-7ca2f9a7c7d0 https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/smart-and-dumb-components-7c...