[edgyquant]

I also love small and well thought components. But as an engineering lead and manager it’s a lot of effort wrangling devs to do so. They always start small and then overtime converge on multiple return statements full of huge amounts of inline JS.

[MrJohz]

I've been enjoying SolidJS recently, and due to framework limitations, it is generally impossible to have multiple return statements, which I think helps a bit here. The signals stuff also lends itself really well to writing code that operates only on state, and then plugging it into a thinner, dumber DOM layer, so it's easier to compose pieces together. It's like hooks or the Vue composition API, but moreso? It's difficult to describe.

That said, SolidJS as a whole requires a completely different mental model of rendering, even if it does look superficially similar to React. It's also a much smaller ecosystem, with less documentation, so getting to grips with it is that much harder. Very rewarding, but probably not ideal for everyone right now.