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Re:Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide by benbristow on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:27AM (#20476804)
That looks really ugly IMHO, compared to JSX which is more HTML-like.

Perhaps it might look better if there's a bigger example?

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Re:Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide by pcr910303 on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:43AM (#20476879)
> That looks really ugly IMHO, compared to JSX which is more HTML-like.

The point of this is not of asthetics, (IMO it’s not that ugly :-)) but more that it just consists of common data structures that is easy to manipulate. If you’re a React person, think of directly writing JSON instead of using indirect React.createElement calls. Writing components in JSON would be impractical; (actually it might not be - I think I’ve seen blogposts using React without JSX) but writing components in cljs data structures are practical and less tooling is needed!

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