JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript

Re:JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript by w4tson on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:01PM (#14973569)

No but writing HTML directly in your class is soooo late 90s like when we used to write Java Servlets!

All this has happened before. It will happen again

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Re:JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript by hajile on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:50PM (#14974032)

You write syntactic sugar <div className="foo">abc</div> to turn into React.createElement('div', {className:'foo'}, 'abc') which generates an object {...stuff, tag: 'div', attrs: {className: 'foo'}, children: 'abc'}. Your final object is then compared to the previous object and any differences are manually written to the DOM in an efficient order.

Hardly comparable to Java Servlets.

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