Simple React Patterns

Re:Simple React Patterns by hungerstrike on Friday November 10, 2017 @02:34AM (#15668523)

People also write tons of bad functional code with JS. It gets worse and worse the more that people keep following this cargo cult of HOCs and functional programming. The obsession with using HOCs for passing a simple variable around is particularly absurd. Importing objects with methods (or even just a namespace with functions) is way, way cleaner than importing every function seperately.

Which stable and widely used GUI kit has ever been done well with functional programming? Until one exists, I can’t really take anybody who pushes functional programming for GUIs very seriously.

Functional programming just isn’t that good for complex domains. OOP is way better for GUIs.

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Re:Simple React Patterns by girvo on Friday November 10, 2017 @05:11AM (#15668971)

ReasonML and ReasonReact agree with you: instead of HOCs, they prefer using standard functions, explicit “self”, and just passing things down through props. It’s quite a breath of fresh air really.

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Re:Simple React Patterns by krysp on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:12AM (#15669951)

I suppose it isn't really a GUI but it does manage them.

http://xmonad.org/

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