Reagent presents a very simple api at the expense of a lot of complex/magical bookkeeping to link components and their update cycles to a framework-specific app

Reagent presents a very simple api at the expense of a lot of complex/magical bookkeeping to link components and their update cycles to a framework-specific application atom. If you're really looking to demystify how clojurescript can wrap React, I can't recommend reading through the source code of Quiescent enough: https://github.com/levand/quiescent/blob/release/src/quiescent/core.cljs https://github.com/levand/quiescent/blob/release/src/quiesce... That said, I've really enjoyed Reagent for prototyping, and the magic is the good kind of magic. It's just that Quiescent feels so much like a clojure library, trading ease for simplicity — and is often a better brick to build your own abstractions on top of.