You don't have to use JSX. You can use React.DOM directly or use react-hyperscript as a shorthand method for React.DOM Also pay attention to the new createFact

You don't have to use JSX. You can use React.DOM directly or use react-hyperscript as a shorthand method for React.DOM Also pay attention to the new createFactory method which aims to make it easy to separate your changing HTML from the static HTML (which you would have previously used a templating library for) My recommendation is to not use JSX ever since it breaks a lot of your tooling. The first impression people get is that "Hey this makes my code easier to read", but that is only because JSX introduces the problem that it attempts to solve. Basically most HTML structures are 80% unchanging and 20% changing (the reason we use templates in the first place). React.DOM was a pain previously because you'd define a complicated HTML structure in Javascript, which isn't really any harder or more complex, but then you'd have all this code that was never changing distracting you from the code that was changing (i.e. your app behavior). JSX fixed this problem by turning all the static bits to html like templates do so it was visually easy to separate from your behavior code. This was the wrong solution because it's over engineered and breaks compatibility with a lot of things. createFactory essentially allows you to "partially apply" the static parts and get a function that only needs to deal with the dynamic parts (like compiled template functions but for virtual DOM) Anyways, check out the following links: https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript https://gist.github.com/sebmarkbage/d7bce729f38730399d28 https://gist.github.com/sebmarkbage/d7bce729f38730399d28