The point is that <Component prop={0} /> is equivalent to React.createElement(Component, {prop:0}, []) - it's a static, typed descriptor, and you imported the C

The point is that <Component prop={0} /> is equivalent to React.createElement(Component, {prop:0}, []) - it's a static, typed descriptor, and you imported the Component from somewhere because it's just another function/class. There is no such equivalence in magical templates of Angular or Razor - the JSX won't break as long as JavaScript can call functions, and will behave exactly in that way. Yes, it's a move to declarative code from procedural one, that's right; what's important for my distinction is how is the move done. The question we're answering with React (as opposed to Vue, Angular, Razor...) is not declarative/procedural, but magical/not magical. P.S. I heard that templates in Angular are not just templates anymore, they're converting them to function calls - I don't know the specifics, last Angular i saw was version 2.