For years I used react without jsx - with a few minor conventions to make it shorter to write elements via JS (`_div(...)` being equivalent to the jsx `<div>{..

For years I used react without jsx - with a few minor conventions to make it shorter to write elements via JS (`_div(...)` being equivalent to the jsx `<div>{...}</div>`, and some minor variant for elems with attrs) it's quite easy to build trees using plain old JS syntax. The advantages of doing that were better tooling support, since everything under the sun supported JS, but not necessarily JSX very well, and jsx isn't really all that important anyhow. Obviously that's not a factor anymore today ;-).