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> I re-wrote my entire teaching syllabus for my programming course to use Vue instead of React, simply because it's much better to maintain Vue apps rather than React apps after 6 months, which is the most important value add for me in any framework.

Why do you find it harder to maintain React apps after 6 months?

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One of the main reasons - JSX. Contrary to popular belief, JSX is all cool until you're in a situation where you need to maintain the app you wrote.

I know React can be written without JSX as well, but frustratingly most documents/resources online are all examples with JSX.

And then, this:

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/810885087214637057

I find it the other way around actually. It's much easier for me to maintain JSX then using an html template engine.

That doesn't really clarify your position. JSX is a syntax, why in the world does that cause maintainability issues? And that tweet is a massive straw man. It's poorly spaced, poorly written and YEARS after React came out it shows that people still don't understand the difference between separation of concerns and separation of languages.

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