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by _betty_ 857 days ago
knowing both i used to be frustrated by jsx's lack of support for plain if and for loops like razor has (eg map and the weird && syntax we general end up with)

eg ``` <ul> @foreach(var item in list) { <li>@item.name</li> } </ul> ```

of course this idea goes against jsx's implementation (as it's just nested functions) and paradigm of being html in plain javascript rather than an interpreted templating language.

some of the differences i really like (like being able to assign compoents to variables, pretty sure razor doesn't have anything like that).

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The thing about jsx is that I don't have to learn the special syntax and rules that govern the @foreach construct.

jsx map accepts a js function which should return a jsx element. Can I use...? If it works in js, yes.

Foreach in razor is just c# too, so it's not a language thing it's more what it transpiles to.