[code_runner]

I love vue’s concept of computeds. It makes me think back to knockoutjs when things felt like they “just worked” as long as you knew where the ES5 footguns were.

It’s nice to have a concept “ground truth” in data and props and then computeds that sort of tie it all together.

[shrew]

My feelings exactly, it makes for a satisfying separation of concerns, and if you understand what's going on under the hood it makes for cleaner templates and more obvious component code.

[gedy]

Yes, and those are available as well with MobX (in React), Svelte, etc.

You can do same/similar with React hooks, just not as clean or obvious.

[shrew]

You can 100% do these things in React, I don't believe React is a less able framework by any means. If anything it gives you a powerful toolbox and pulls down the guard rails.

I do, however, think that working with React changes your mental model somewhat, and when I'm working with React I catch myself doing a lot more data wrangling close or in the rendering loop than I would in any other modern framework. Certainly since class components have fallen out of favour, you're working with a function designed to be run hundreds of times, while Vue and Svelte both provide clear patterns to deal with data at the point of change, then separately deal with updating the display of that data as required.

It takes using something like MobX to really push a React codebase to a data-driven model and that means many inexperienced developers fall into the common pitfalls far more easily than if they're using an alternative framework imo.