Thanks for your considered response (and code error catch!). I was spurred to write the article after a project was shipwrecked by the decision that everything must go through the redux store. Even things that were simple component-contained state. It killed the speed of development.

It was done because it was assumed to be the “right way” to build.

I agree with you that a central state is important, I think almost every realworld app can benefit from it.

It’s just the structure of a flux-like store isn’t really usually a necessity.

Thanks again for your thoughts!