The article sort of touches on this, but in my experience working with React the most important thing is to keep as much as you can declarative. When you start

The article sort of touches on this, but in my experience working with React the most important thing is to keep as much as you can declarative. When you start doing things in an imperative way, particularly when they are async, that's when you run into problems. It's one of the reasons I find GraphQL such a good fit.