Comment by zahlman
8 days ago
Interesting to contrast that with the assessment of React, qua critique of the Observer pattern in Brandon Rhodes' 2022 design patterns talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGq7Cr2ekVM?t=28m45s . (Notably, later in the talk when he describes the Mediator pattern with a GUI-motivated example, he preempts by saying "I know I just told you to use React"... but then the description ends up sounding to me very much as if React is an implementation of the Mediator pattern!)
All modern FE frameworks are effectively observer patterns, it's that there are two camps on how those changes in the state are propagated.
In signals-based platforms (Vue, Svelte, Solid), the signal targets specific subscribers and callbacks where the developer has opted in to state changes.
In React, though `useEffect` looks a lot like Vue's `watch`, they behave entirely differently because the entire component is registered as the callback.
The code examples in my second link [1] above are worth a glance because it makes it very obvious how similar these libraries are when glancing at the code, but how different they are in terms of how they deliver update signals.