Comment by mschaef

Funny you mention that, but one of the better pieces of MFC related advice I read was to have a single central location for computing UI element states. It did feel a lot like React does these days (albeit with less sophistication in the underlying 'DOM model' back then, and nothing like React's differencing stuff.)

http://www.flounder.com/controls.htm

To me at least, if you change the terms in that article, it looks a lot like the arguments in favor of moving away from ad hoc jQuery spaghetti and to React's single global rendering pass.