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by zachrip 1750 days ago
Adding to this - jsx (the templating that react and other libraries use) is compiled down to calls for React.createElement (this is configurable). And jsx is a sort of superset of html so it's not exactly html tags, it just looks a lot like it.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/DwEwlgbgfAsAUAAgcA...
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dragonwriter 1750 days ago
> And jsx is a sort of superset of html

More accurately, JSX is shaped like HTML, and some of the the transforms for JSX to JS have built in special handling for the standard HTML tags.

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