It’s been awhile since I did any frontend work. Is there something that has taken jQuery’s place?

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        template syntax is a piece of cake, takes literally 2 hours to learn everything you need and you can easily see what’s where and how the html will look when it’s rendered or not.

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          But why bother with creating a new language, and duplicating all the features your language already has, in a weird way?

          If I want a list of UI items based on an array of some data, I can just do items.map(item => 〈Item key={item.id} item={item} /〉), using the normal map function that’s already part of the language.

          Or I can use a function, e.g. items.map(item => renderItem(item, otherData)) etc.

          JSX itself is a very thin layer that translates to normal function calls.

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            But why bother with creating a new language

            I can just do items.map(item => 〈Item key={item.id} item={item} /〉)

            I don’t think this is a very good example. You’ve just said not to use a new language, then used JSX, a new language.

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            but how do you know what renderItem does? where will the items end up?

            we are visual creatures.

            if I see a <ul><li></li></ul> I know it’s doing a list item for every object in given list.

            it’s literally just html with a few added stuff, v-if to determine whether it’s rendered, v-for for iteration, dynamic class bindings and event listener bindings.

            templating has also been around for a while for a reason it’s solid tech, thymeleaf and jsf/primefaces being prime examples.

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              Well you don’t have to place it in a separate function, nothing stops you from inlining that part and writing li or whatever directly there.

              It’s up to you how you organize your components.