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Comment by acemarke | Hacker News Reader

Out of curiosity, what are you using instead of JSX? Plain `React.createElement()` calls, `createElement` aliased to a shorter variable like `e`, or something like the `react-hyperscript-helpers` library?

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We’re still using https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-dom-factories for plain DOM elements, so code looks like

    dom.div({ props }, ...)

For our own components, we export the output of React.createFactory https://reactjs.org/docs/react-api.html#createfactory rather that the component itself, so rendering code looks like:

    MyComponent({ props }, ...)

I realise that both of those are marked legacy, with a nudge towards using JSX instead, but they are pretty thin wrappers around createElement so it seems like a small dependency.

it's funny how originally jsx is what kept me away from react, and now it's what keeps me from leaving.

You can actually leave react and still keep JSX. This tiny library lets you use JSX as a templating mechanism: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

It's funny how everybody hated E4X when Adobe and Mozilla were doing it, and love JSX now.

I didn't even know this existed.

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