[zachrose]

> I find the converse to be true for the front end. I find most attempts to deal with the UI in anything other than objects and components (read jQuery, React Hooks), turns to spaghetti rather quickly.

What alternatives have you tried?

[kls]

ClojureScript, Reflex, Grapefruit, Seesaw and a host of others, It's my opinion (so take it with a grain of salt) and it very well may be the way my brain works but I just find functional to not marry well to UI development. For the service and process oriented stuff associated with the front end I think it is great, but when it comes to modeling components, I find objects and inheritance work far better.

This is one of the reasons I have long been a huge proponent of Javascript despite it warts, as it can be OO when I need it to be OO and functional when I need it to be functional.

[mecameron]

I've used ClojureScript with re-frame professionally for over 2 years, and it's been the first time in over 20 years of development that I've enjoyed working on the front-end. Unidirectional data flow with a single app atom has been a dream to work with.