[austin-cheney]

Whether you like this project or not, your comment so completely misses the point. You are confusing the JSX syntax, which is what the author wanted by extracting it away from React, for all the React candy. This is a missing the forest for the trees kind of thing.

This mind numbing reliance upon layers of abstraction nonsense around state management is why I really don't like React. State management is ridiculously simple. State management, when done correctly, is the most primitive example of MVC with no abstractions needed.

[SkiFire13]

State management is not simple. You have to constantly keep in sync two different piece of states (your data model and the UI). Making sure that when you modify some parts of your model then everything depending on that is also updated is one of the hardest things to guarantee. Fundamentally this is because it is non-local: you cannot tell what will change by just looking at the definition of what you're mutating.

You might be able to handle this while you're alone and you know everything about your codebase, but the moment you're working with someone else or in a team this will no longer be the case.

[austin-cheney]

Stop the madness. Its stupendously simple.

As the user, not you the author of some code, make changes to the UI it will be via events. In the respective event handlers just update a big state object with the identity of the node and how it is changed. When the page loads simply read from that state object to recreate the respective node exactly how they were when the user modified them. That's it. Nothing more.

Its how I wrote a full OS gui for the browser. It does far more than SPA framework, does it substantially faster, and requires only a tiny fraction of the code.

Yes, yes, here come all the excuses, like: I can't code or it wont work in a team, because other people cant code. Stop with the foolishness. Provide some governance, preferably fully automated, around event handling and you have complete obsoleted your giant nightmare framework.

I describe it here: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/state_manag...