The biggest difference being in React, the render cycle is a synchronous, blocking function call, but attempting to access any remote data is purely asynchronou

The biggest difference being in React, the render cycle is a synchronous, blocking function call, but attempting to access any remote data is purely asynchronous. There's no way to repeat the horror of calling MySQL from a PHP template or whatever you might be able to do here. It's still possible to write bad code, of course, but the old justification don't quite apply to react like they might here, or elsewhere.