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by foota 3294 days ago
Fwiw I think "compiled to" is a bit of a misnomer. From my understanding it's more like a DSL that gets interpreted by the renderer.
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ng12 3294 days ago
I think compilation is fair wording -- JSX is just sugar around the createElement API. : https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/react-api.html#createe...
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foota 3290 days ago
A bit late, but my thought is that compiled to js/Dom api to me implies that it's compiled directly to document.createElement and friends.
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