[ng12]

I absolutely hate any sort of HTML directives or non-trivial templating which in my mind violate the RoLP. You have a fundamentally simple technology and you're shoehorning complexity into it with the end result being there are multiple ways to implement everything. In my mind I'd rather have one tool to do everything -- Javascript. I don't think of JSX as HTML, I think of it more like Elm does -- a way to structure your UI in code which just happens to compile to HTML.

As for mapping JSX to HTML I think React's biggest strength is it's composability. But it comes with a price: things start to smell very, very quickly unless you religiously separate concerns.

[boubiyeah]

Yeah... That's my experience as well.

"Hummm, this string technology was meant for static webpages :( I think the solution is to create an arbitrary sub-language and add more string bits to it to make it dynamic" is more adapted when you quickly want to add a few dynamic behaviors to an existing static template here and there, but not so much when you build a complex app from the ground up.

Not to mention these opaque strings suck when you are serious about using a typed language :)