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I will never understand why people think JSX style processing is a good idea. It's hiding what's actually happening, at no benefit (or very little benefit). At least with the former (C#) I can neatly build things up, reuse those components, instead of passing some monstrosity around.

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I don't understand this. You could build up the template using jsx exactly like you could otherwise. For instance, I could put that in a variable and then use it in another template via {}

You could, but it's unintuitive (in my opinion) to do so -- which was the parent's comment larger point. You're not doing anything different, and to an extent the latter is actually lying about what's going on (you're not writing HTML). I also lose a certain level of tooling by doing it the JSX way. Why try to mask what you're doing? Why make it harder for your tools to help you out?

I guess I haven't felt this pain that you've felt. I'm satisfied with my tooling and feel that small components help keep things very clear and focused.

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