I'm not sure how you'd write an application without a data model? If you take a look at the first figure here: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-i

I'm not sure how you'd write an application without a data model? If you take a look at the first figure here: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html it's hard to see how react/flux isn't just dealing with the controller/view bit - perhaps in a better way - but it's still a bridge between the users mental model and the computers data model? And it's likely that the data model is at least somewhat complex, if it involves some kind of MVCC/ACID/transactions and/or data normalization?