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Re:Things every React.js beginner should know by Guillaume86 on Monday January 25, 2016 @10:09AM (#10967540)
No it's not getting preprocessed to actual HTML in React. Depending on the transform function, it can be turned to an object tree or a function calls tree (like in React) or actually HTML like you said but it's not a common use case AFAIK.

It's not a text templating language like classic PHP, it's an object/function calls hierarchy DSL (more like vb.net XML literals). I think most people critisizing react for putting html in JS havn't tried it or don't remember why "html" in code was considered bad in the first place.

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Re:Things every React.js beginner should know by EvanPlaice on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:47PM (#10975476)
Right. I was aiming for the 'simple' answer but should have said DOM instead of HTML.

I'm also thinking in more of an Angular2 context as that's what I'm most familiar with.

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