React probably closer to being just the View than MVC or any other paradigm. It doesn't even have any model layer. Components in React take a set of properties

React probably closer to being just the View than MVC or any other paradigm. It doesn't even have any model layer. Components in React take a set of properties and implement a render function that transforms those properties into a view (usually by rendering other high-level React components rather outputting plain old HTML). Instead of manually maintaining view state you just render from scratch each time; hence the description of pure functions in parent comment. Usually this would be a terrible idea because it would kill browser performance and lead to extra complexity in registering/unregistering event handlers, etc. but React implements a framework that ensures the minimum number of DOM interactions happen.