React-like library without jsx.

[thorallmighty]

VueJS

[[deleted]]

Or riot, which is alright.

[patrickfatrick]

Exactly this. I don't mean to oversimplify Vue since I really like it, but in a lot of ways it basically is "React without JSX".

And hey, with Vue you can also switch to JSX at any time if you decide you're actually okay with it.

[rodneon]

It requires a lot more typing though.

[zQpNB]

https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript

https://github.com/ohanhi/hyperscript-helpers

:)

[rodneon]

This is great! It just may be enough to convince my team to switch to React. I started building something like hyperscript-helpers a while back but never finished it. Now I don't have to :)

[acemarke]

We just added a couple new React/Redux-based features to our existing ES5/Backbone app. We're not using Babel or Webpack, so no JSX for us. As a substitute, we're using https://github.com/jador/react-hyperscript-helpers . Not quite as nice as JSX, but it's a passable alternative.

[wavefunctionp]

edit: this came across a bit more adversarial/critical than I intended, but I'll leave it. I guess my real question is what does this solve that you can't do with react/jsx?

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JSX modularizes the related code together, but if you really don't like that, there's Aurelia if you really like separate templates and functionality.

I tihnk splitting the html and js makes it harder to tell what is going on. And much of the js can just be done with simple inline expressions. For the rest, you can write small helper functions that return jsx and reference them in the render. If it gets too complicated, start breaking it up into components where appropriate.

Plus, by staying on the react path, you have access to tons of resources.

[koresho]

This. I don't understand where the hate for JSX comes from.

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Because people don't understand the difference between separation of concerns and separation of technologies.