Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React

Re:Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React by crudbug on Monday May 11, 2015 @10:05PM (#9529150)

Count me in!

Introducing multiline string comments to ES6 (python syntax) would have been a better option.

""" <div> <p> {{ hello_world }} </p </div> """

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Re:Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React by grayrest on Monday May 11, 2015 @10:20PM (#9529205)

You're in luck. ES6 introduces quasi-literals which are multi-line and will do exactly what you want. You can even tag them to set up parsing.

    jsx`<div><p>${hello_world}</p></div>`

I don't know why it'd be a better option. You're moving the time/cost of parsing client side and preventing minification. If you're going to do a build time parse, I don't understand what the extra quoting buys you.

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Re:Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React by insin on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @02:36AM (#9529904)

Relevant: "Why Not Template Literals?" on the JSX specification site: http://facebook.github.io/jsx/#why-not-template-literals

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Re:Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React by egeozcan on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @02:27AM (#9529879)

It could have the benefit of not breaking other "X-to-JavaScript" transpilers as it is just a string.

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