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JSX is not html. JSX is not a templating language. The similarity between JSX syntax and the equivalent virtual DOM node names is the reason it exists. When you

JSX is not html. JSX is not a templating language. The similarity between JSX syntax and the equivalent virtual DOM node names is the reason it exists. When you write JSX code you are writing javascript code using the JSX DSL to generate the virtual dom. 'HTML templates embedded in code' is simply not what happens when you use JSX. The fact that you got fooled into thinking that is the opposite of a DSL problem.

ashark 9y ago
> The fact that you got fooled into thinking that is the opposite of a DSL problem. Which part of what I wrote makes you think I think JSX is an HTML template? The part where I specifically called it "not-html" and the react.createElement code it's translated to "still-not-html"? That it's kind-of-HTML-but-not, turned into Javascript, turned into shadow-DOM transformations, turned into HTML, is Rube-Goldbergian enough to warrant skepticism. No need to misunderstand it to feel that it's an indication that something somewhere has gone deeply, fundamentally wrong. And actually I think it'd be fair and consistent to call it a template language, were I inclined to press that point. That it becomes Javascript doesn't change the form it takes when you're writing it. Looks and quacks enough like a duck that insisting it's totally not a duck at all is untenable. Sure, it's translated into shadow-DOM-transforming JS. So? It's not like HTML itself doesn't go through some intermediary representations before becoming different colored glowing pixels on your screen.