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Re:React 16 by bpicolo on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:40PM (#15341430)
It's optional, and also not optional. Nobody is using React without JSX in practice, because it's ugly and verbose.
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Re:React 16 by l1ambda on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:58PM (#15342881)
Not true, without JSX, React is basically Mithril, if you alias React.createElement to a short function name.
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Re:React 16 by bpicolo on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:09PM (#15342972)
Yeah, and I'm arguing that it's pretty ugly to write nested html that way.

Hater-or-lover of JSX, it is definitely an intuitive way to think about HTML in the context of JS.

I prefer the vue model that's a bit closer to the metal, though, if only because of quirks like className

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Re:React 16 by l1ambda on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:22PM (#15343093)
Think I see what you are getting at--in practice most folks using React are going to use JSX and build tools, and if you alias the function it's kind of non-standard.

Mithril has "class" instead of "className"; that irks me too.

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