[sarahdellysse]

even simpler, I have always wished that JSX/JSX-alikes would serialize to something like a tuple like `(tag: string | Component, attributes: Record, children: List)`, so your example would start looking something like this:

    <div class="example">
      <h1 id="heading">This is an example</h1>
      <h2>creating React markup</h2>
      <AnotherComponent foo="bar">
        <li>
          <a href="http://whatever.com">One list item</a>
        </li>
        <li>
          Another list item <hr />
        </li>
      </AnotherComponent>
    </div>

would translate to something like this:

    ["div", {"class": "example"}, [
      ["h1", {"id": "heading"}, ["This is an example"]],
      ["h2", {}, ["creating React markup"]],
      [AnotherComponent, {"foo": "bar"}, [
        ["li", {}, [
          ["a", {"href": "http://whatever.com"}, ["One list item"]],
        ],
        ["li", {}, [
          "Another list item",
          ["hr", {}, []],
        ],
      ],
    ]

and that all Rux/JSX/hyperscript/whatever would compile down to that

[joeldrapper]

Ruby has blocks, so in Phlex, you’d write it like this using methods and keyword arguments.

  div(class: "example") do
    h1(id: "heading") { "This is an example" }
    h2 { "creating React markup" }
    AnotherComponent(foo: "bar") do
      li { a(href: "http://whatever.com") { "One list item" } }
      li do
        text " Another list item"
        hr
      end
    end
  end

[mechanicum]

You’re halfway to Clojure’s hiccup syntax[1] there.

[1]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup/blob/master/doc/syntax...

[jazzyjackson]

"JSX-inspired" caught me off gaurd, the only thing JSX could inspire me to do was build something so I never had to touch it again, I landed on something similar to what you have here, I call it "Elementary"

Here's the JSON for a landing page written in my syntax: https://github.com/jazzyjackson/lookalive/blob/master/docs/i...

In another project I use it extensively to mix javascript in with the object syntax as you would with JSX: https://github.com/lookalive-software/geodesy/blob/newfocus/...

The implementation is fairly simple, given JSON returns an HTML string.

https://github.com/lookalive-software/elementary/blob/master...