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If there's value in what I'm suggesting, I think it's going to be in a separate object that can be called regardless of event handler like wpf commands or these gtk actions

carlw: This line of discussion keeps taking my brain back to the FRP style championed by JS projects like Vue, Mobx, all riffs on the Flux pattern of React

Actions or Commands are used to mutate a data store, and all the rendering is simply subscribed to the store.

that's what I'm shooting for.  Working on a larger team, the updates become a big problem.  This is both from logical perspective and performance perspective.

where there's a benefit with JavaFX is that you don't really have to worry about rendering a document.  you have the smart controls and widgets already in place