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That exists in every react app today so what’s your point? Are you arguing against it? If so, other than what I described (web components) how would you build a

That exists in every react app today so what’s your point? Are you arguing against it? If so, other than what I described (web components) how would you build a view? Web components or react components are supposed to be self-encapsulated so you can just add them to your view. Code and all. We are talking about view model code or presentation code.

Timon3 3y ago
I don't think OP is arguing against "self-contained components" (with template and code), but about "presentation and business code mixed". I really like Vue's solution compared to React - the template is strictly separate from the logic driving the template. Same file, but seperate areas. I've previously updated some components in a design system to Vue 3, where I followed the HTML results set by the React implementation. Reading the Vue 2 components worked almost immediately. The React components were so over-complicated that I sometimes literally had to follow the browser inspector instead of understanding every twist and turn in the code. I have never seen a Vue codebase that is as unreadable as the average React codebase with mixed business and presentation.
falcolas 3y ago
I'm just saying that > were doing "JSX" a decade before React arrived is another instance of "rediscovering old paradigms". What I'm not saying is that this method of building a view is unnecessary, or wrong. > If so, other than what I described (web components) how would you build a view? There are many ways to create a view. Programming history is littered with them anywhere there's a UI to be created. Will they interact nicely with React? Probably not most of them, but it doesn't mean they do not exist.
- gabereiser 3y ago
  More specifically, for the web. <script type="text/template"> arrived over a decade ago and it's taken us this long to get a <template> standard, let alone a document.createDocumentFragment(). These things take time. I know we are quick to adopt the good and then be shocked it takes so long for the rest of the world to standardize on, but it only reinforces what paradigms "work", and which ones don't by which paradigms become standards. Time will tell.

Timon3 3y ago

I don't think OP is arguing against "self-contained components" (with template and code), but about "presentation and business code mixed". I really like Vue's solution compared to React - the template is strictly separate from the logic driving the template. Same file, but seperate areas. I've previously updated some components in a design system to Vue 3, where I followed the HTML results set by the React implementation. Reading the Vue 2 components worked almost immediately. The React components were so over-complicated that I sometimes literally had to follow the browser inspector instead of understanding every twist and turn in the code. I have never seen a Vue codebase that is as unreadable as the average React codebase with mixed business and presentation.

falcolas 3y ago

I'm just saying that > were doing "JSX" a decade before React arrived is another instance of "rediscovering old paradigms". What I'm not saying is that this method of building a view is unnecessary, or wrong. > If so, other than what I described (web components) how would you build a view? There are many ways to create a view. Programming history is littered with them anywhere there's a UI to be created. Will they interact nicely with React? Probably not most of them, but it doesn't mean they do not exist.

gabereiser 3y ago
More specifically, for the web. <script type="text/template"> arrived over a decade ago and it's taken us this long to get a <template> standard, let alone a document.createDocumentFragment(). These things take time. I know we are quick to adopt the good and then be shocked it takes so long for the rest of the world to standardize on, but it only reinforces what paradigms "work", and which ones don't by which paradigms become standards. Time will tell.