A side question. The advantage of JSX I see is the ability to connect, declaratively, components. I find this very helpful in terms of understanding programs I write. I wonder if I use React not because of the virtual dom, but simply because of JSX.

So I would like to explore the ability to use JSX in non-DOM environments. react-three-fiber does this with Threejs, but then it is still React oriented. I found this article about parsing JSX https://blog.bitsrc.io/demystifying-jsx-building-your-own-js.... And I know babel has something that parses JSX.

Does anyone have recommendations for doing this. Threejs to me a good candidate - a non React version, since it is a hierarchical system (scene, meshes, materials etc), but I suspect there are other applications.

I made an attempt to implement a Javascript version of Hickey's transducers - a sort of conveyor belt of functions and that is another instance of a series of processing steps that might be best represented in JSX