React is mostly hype

Re:React is mostly hype by davelnewton on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @10:11AM (#12297550)

React is better at enabling planning and architecture; that's part of its job. That was explicitly not part of jQuery's job. jQuery was a tool to be used as part of a larger strategy. Lots of people chose to ignore that part of their code, and paid the price.

I like JSX quite a bit as well; IMO creating an artificial separation between presentation and behavior is not a useful way to think about web apps.

Separating data from presentation and behavior is fine, and is a long-standing GUI tradition.

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Re:React is mostly hype by pests on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:30AM (#12380722)

I think we're really in agreement about everything. The tools have intended jobs; some people use them incorrectly or without regard to best-practices. Both have different strengths and failure modes.

I would say JSX and the separation of presentation / behavior is orthogonal.

JSX is just a Javascript powered embedded SGML-like document.

The combining of presentation and behavior is caused by render() being defined inline with implementation.

You can not use JSX by using ReactDOM directly or a templating library while still keeping render() inlined.

Or you can move render() to another class (or subclassed, or HOC, whatever) and separate the presentation and behavior with or without JSX.

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