Angular 1 was a mess of filters, controllers, scopes, directives, services and what not. The only closest thing to what we call a component today in their was d

Angular 1 was a mess of filters, controllers, scopes, directives, services and what not. The only closest thing to what we call a component today in their was directive but it was never the main abstraction BackboneJS was MVC iirc? Don't remember if they had any notion of self contained component but it was very different from the MVVM paradigm react introduced. No experience with Dojo so can't comment but I remember MVC being the paradigm with most mindshare before React became popular.