Any examples of places you think React's design does better than say, Vue or Svelte?
Specifically, imagine you a component that takes an arbitrary node to render. Just pass the node to the temple right?
Ha.
This api sucks -> https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/render-function.html
Compared to having “{node}” in react.
Do you mean a component that renders out to a node?
Or a component that takes in a node external to the component so it can render to that external node (as opposed to or in conjunction with a node inside the component)?
If the first, isn't this just the job of the component's <template> or jsx?
If the second, isn't this what slots are for?
Yes. Mutable vnodes is a huge mistake that I've done long time ago when I've tried to figure out how to write efficient diffing algorithm (2014-2015), and a lot of libraries copied that terrible idea without deep understanding why I've done it in the first place.
As soon as you go any amount of complexity higher in your program two way databinding is pure poison.
Two-way databinding is the absolute very worst feature people took from Flex.