<i>&quot;That the author kind of misses this point makes me pay less attention to the rest of the post.&quot;</i><p>Too bad. The author addressed everything you said. You just didn&#x27;t read past the sentence you quoted.<p>Nowhere does the piece imply that you should render every state change server-side. In fact, it goes on to show, with specific examples, of how you can get data-binding and partial-update behavior with web-native APIs. The argument is that most people don&#x27;t need React, not that they don&#x27;t need AJAX or data binding.