This is such a step back, it's a completely wrong approach trying to mimick it in React: <ul> <li ng-repeat="item in items">{{item}}</li> </ul>

This is such a step back, it's a completely wrong approach trying to mimick it in React: <ul> <li ng-repeat="item in items">{{item}}</li> </ul> The equivalent in ES6 (which is React's preferred way to do things now): return <ul> {this.props.items.map(item => <li>{item}</li>)} </ul>; It's just code! This gets better as you use a better language than JavaScript[0]: <ul> {<li>{item}</li> for item in @props.items} </ul> Shorter, way more explicit, no new attributes to learn. Enjoy. [0] https://github.com/jsdf/coffee-react https://github.com/jsdf/coffee-react