React's Component Tree Was Invented by Game...

If you build React apps, you already understand game engine architecture. You just don't know it yet. React's core idea is a tree of composable components, each managing its own state, communicating through props down and callbacks up. This pattern feels modern because React popularized it in 2013. But game engines have been shipping production software with this exact architecture since the early 2000s. Godot, Unity, and Unreal all use a scene tree (or scene graph) as their fundamental organizi