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Comment by mbrock | Hacker News Reader

Great stuff!

    var tag = React.createElement

Could make the code nicer to read...

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or even h1 = React.createFactory('h1'), ... and so on for every that you use in the file, and then use h1({}, 'text') in the code.

What about h1 = React.DOM.h1;?

Personally, I moved from using DOM tag names as variable names ('a' being the worst) to saving 'var DOM = React.DOM' (or '{DOM} = React') and then calling DOM.a(props, children...)

Mithril.js uses 'm()'.

Check it out: http://mithril.js.org

You've hit the nail on the head. I've never seen a fair JSX vs. React.createElement comparison on a blog post. The latter is never given even a basic refactoring such as you and your child comment suggested.

The verbosity makes things easier to understand for beginners.

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