[pjmlp]

JSX feels like PHP and ASP all over again.

Apparently they aren't that bad after all.

[Marazan]

I hesitate to tell people. They are doing it wrong but if you write JSX like how we all wrote PHP back in the day then you are doing it wrong.

[pjmlp]

So how do you modularize content in separate files?

[efdee]

How can you say that? PHP and ASP were dumb text template processors. JSX creates object graphs. They are almost nothing alike at all.

[pjmlp]

Mixed content on the same file, looks pretty much the same, regardless how it is implemented.

[efdee]

The problem with ASP/PHP (or at least, the one we are addressing here) always mixing presentational logic with business logic. Something you still shouldn't do, and React doesn't advocate doing so at all.

[arvinsim]

I totally disagree. VueJS and AngularJS feel like PHP/ASP but I never got that feeling from JSX.

[pjmlp]

I fail to see how proper component based frameworks, with clean separation of concerns, provide such experience.

JSX is the one mixing echo like statements with proper JavaScript.

[TomMarius]

That is pretty impossible since JSX is just JavaScript, including all of its scope separation. It might be that you're not well versed in using it.

[ngrilly]

JSX let's us define components, usable with the usual HTML syntax. PHP does not. That's why Facebook developed XHP (XML fragments in PHP), which inspired JSX.