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I'm sorry but a `reducer` isn't a 90s-era Java concept at all [0], and you don't actually need to use any of those other things. This is beyond ridiculous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold_(higher-order_function)

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No but writing HTML directly in your class is soooo late 90s like when we used to write Java Servlets!

All this has happened before. It will happen again

You write syntactic sugar <div className="foo">abc</div> to turn into React.createElement('div', {className:'foo'}, 'abc') which generates an object {...stuff, tag: 'div', attrs: {className: 'foo'}, children: 'abc'}. Your final object is then compared to the previous object and any differences are manually written to the DOM in an efficient order.

Hardly comparable to Java Servlets.

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