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React makes you a better javascript developer, no doubt. The problem I have with other frameworks (Angular, Ember) is that they use a templating language, inste

by kentor 11y ago

React makes you a better javascript developer, no doubt. The problem I have with other frameworks (Angular, Ember) is that they use a templating language, instead of Just Javascript™. After using React, I never want to touch a templating language ever again. I don't want to learn a DSL to do simple things like loops + filters and conditionals, which I already know with Javascript. I don't want to learn their special scoping rules, something which Javascript has already defined. And I seriously doubt debugging templates is easy.

antoaravinth 11y ago
Thats a very good point on scopes and loops. Thanks
hex13 11y ago
The irony is that React is controversial because of mixing HTML and JS but in Angular you also are encouraged to mix JavaScript and JavaScript-like expressions with HTML (e.g. in ng-click or when setting ng-class conditionally). And you must insert some weird looking DSL to HTML. So I think that React way of using plain old JavaScript as a DSL for creating HTML components is indeed more elegant and more expressive that Angular way of injecting an artificial created and limited DSL and chunks of JS-like code to HTML trying to figure out how to make things properly.
antoaravinth 11y ago
@kentor: Looks like learning React is far more easier. But learning Flux looks a bit involved process. Not great samples and books available out there. Any idea, where to get started?
- kentor 11y ago
  I would recommend Redux for data management. I've been using that at work and it's been great. Their docs are also pretty good. Maybe a good place to start is with one of those boilerplate repos that have React + build tools already set up: https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate.. https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate... Then you just add the stack that you want, like redux and react-redux with npm install.
  - antoaravinth 11y ago
    Redux looks stunning. Thanks a lot for suggesting it.

by kentor 11y ago

antoaravinth 11y ago

Thats a very good point on scopes and loops. Thanks

hex13 11y ago

The irony is that React is controversial because of mixing HTML and JS but in Angular you also are encouraged to mix JavaScript and JavaScript-like expressions with HTML (e.g. in ng-click or when setting ng-class conditionally). And you must insert some weird looking DSL to HTML. So I think that React way of using plain old JavaScript as a DSL for creating HTML components is indeed more elegant and more expressive that Angular way of injecting an artificial created and limited DSL and chunks of JS-like code to HTML trying to figure out how to make things properly.

antoaravinth 11y ago

@kentor: Looks like learning React is far more easier. But learning Flux looks a bit involved process. Not great samples and books available out there. Any idea, where to get started?

kentor 11y ago
I would recommend Redux for data management. I've been using that at work and it's been great. Their docs are also pretty good. Maybe a good place to start is with one of those boilerplate repos that have React + build tools already set up: https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate.. https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate... Then you just add the stack that you want, like redux and react-redux with npm install.
- antoaravinth 11y ago
  Redux looks stunning. Thanks a lot for suggesting it.