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by jcormont 2551 days ago
Not saying that HTML isn't also readable (although... once the number of attributes grows larger I always end up with a bit of a mess, but that might just be me).

The real feat here is getting rid of the hacky way that XML and/or template strings and JS are mixed together in the compiler, without sacrificing readability per se.
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FlorianRappl 2551 days ago
If it would be 2013 the "hacky" way would be acceptable, but JSX is a de-facto standard that is supported by all tools used in production (incl. TypeScript, Babel, your favorite colorizer, language server extensions, ...).

Imho the proposed way sacrifices readability a lot (what does "with" do? is it like the infamous JS with? what is the first, second, third, ... argument?).

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jcormont 2551 days ago
Just read it like natural language. Where it says UIButton.with({ label: "OK" }), that's a Button With a Label of OK. Editors with TypeScript-aware autocomplete (e.g. VS Code) will suggest most of the identifiers here, and tell you what the arguments are for so in practice this works better than you might think.

JSX is a de-facto standard, and it might be convenient in the way that PHP is convenient, but that doesn't mean it's not inherently a hack :) ...

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