I’ve been learning and using React, and I like it’s general approach to building UIs. I really like the unidirectional data flow, though I’m still on the fence about virtual DOM. I get the benefits and really like that it makes testing really easy. However, I am not sold on its being unquestionably better than directly manipulating the DOM or Google’s Incremental DOM. Nevertheless, React, Om, Elm, and others have proven it a viable and fast approach.
One of the best advantages of the aforementioned frameworks is they all allow you to compose custom, reusable elements or components building off of existing HTML elements. (I think WebComponents allows something similar, though I have not personally liked its direction.) Another advantage is that you can declare all these things within JavaScript or your transpiler of choice.
I liked many similar attributes of WPF and XAML when I…
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