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One of the biggest success stories in recent times where language support has made tooling awesome is JSX. The success of JSX shows that developers are happy t
by jasim 11y ago
One of the biggest success stories in recent times where language support has made tooling awesome is JSX.
The success of JSX shows that developers are happy to write HTML inside code, and there are clear benefits of doing so compared to using a dedicated templating language. But the reason why this wasn't popular till JSX showed up was that it is impossible to parse the HTML built in code through string munging. JSX makes XML-inside-Code parseable, which makes it possible for us to use IntelliJ's excellent IDEs to work seamlessly with it.
- anon4 11y agoFor those confused: JSX is a statically-typed, object-oriented programming language designed to run on modern web browsers. Being developed at DeNA as a research project, … https://jsx.github.io/ https://jsx.github.io/
- a-priori 11y agoI think the parent is actually referring to this JSX: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-in-depth.html