DEV Community

Discussion on: A case against the MVI architecture pattern

Collapse
 
feresr profile image
Raviola • Edited

Hi! Thanks for reading, appreciate the feedback!

"MVI pinpoints the exact interactions that already occur and what their side effects are"

MVI does not do this by default though, it requires developers to model those interactions themselves. MVI only provides the framework to do so, just like any other architecture pattern. And MVI is really strict about this, it imposes a lot of artifacts and rules down your throat. Rules and constraints can be good, but in my opinion, the ones MVI encourages are not.

Without that unidirectional flow of intentions, the codebase only becomes increasingly more difficult to scale

The idea of the unidirectional flow is nice, you can still implement it without strictly adhering to all MVI ruleset or go with a different architecture altogether