Angular 2 versus React

Re:Angular 2 versus React by qwertyuiop924 on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:05AM (#10850821)

Well, mithril requires a LOT of array literals and object literals in your function calls. http://mithril.js.org/getting-started.html shows todomvc in mithril. That template would be much more compact, uniform, and readable with a lispy syntax.

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Re:Angular 2 versus React by SomeCallMeTim on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @04:09PM (#10853796)

I see. You're right, that is somewhat ugly.

I've actually considered the idea of hacking a JSX compiler to spit out Mithril output.

If you're going to mix mark-up in your JavaScript, may as well do it with "real" mark-up instead of some imitation language. I'm still on the fence about whether I like mixing mark-up and code, but I'm leaning more toward at this point.

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Re:Angular 2 versus React by lhorie on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @07:35PM (#10855093)

That actually already exists: https://github.com/insin/msx

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Re:Angular 2 versus React by SomeCallMeTim on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:20PM (#10867452)

Awesome! Thanks for the link.

It did seem like an obvious thing to do. I probably would have searched for and found this before doing any actual work on JSX, but I'm glad to know it exists already. :)

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Re:Angular 2 versus React by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday January 07, 2016 @08:30AM (#10857752)

Lisp syntax and idioms make mixing markup with code really elegant and simple. That's why I want to write mithril with lisp syntax.

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