[pier25]

Modern React uses JSX which is then transformed at build time into function calls.

You can write those function calls yourself, but it would be a tremendous PITA.

[lhnz]

In this case, you could use `htm`: https://github.com/developit/htm#usage

[jonquest]

That's cool- but unless you're targeting greenfield browsers only you aren't going to use the syntax in that documentation without a build step or using the babel transpiler directly in the browser which, while cool from a POC standpoint, isn't a good solution. At that point you might as well just add build tools and use JSX or whatever the framework you're trying to use intended or otherwise is well documented.

[pier25]

Yeah totally. Or even use Preact by the same author which is smaller and faster than React.