Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide
> While I’m definitely a lot more fluent in it now, I dunno, it just still feels a bit weird to me. I could share some specifics but that would only invite a bunch of angry nitpicking comments. All I’ll say is that when I go over to projects where I’m writing HTML or HTML-like stuff (Vue, for instance), it feels like a breath of fresh air.JSX is fine, the real power is building your HTML in pure JavaScript. I'll never go back to a template language, in my mind they're a fundamentally flawed design. They necessitate introducing extra concepts and implementing some magic rendering voodoo -- for what? So I can write my code twice, once in the JavaScript and once in whatever weird template directive language the framework uses.So for me the only real alternative to JSX is to do elm-html style nested function calls which tends to be much uglier. JSX isn't perfect but it's the best we have by a mile.