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What do you mean by "helper assisted javascript"? Can you give an example where this has caused problems for you? I'm trying to decide between mithril and this library.

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Sorry, poor word usage on my part. As vvpan more eloquently puts it, DOM construction via js functions. This is the example from their website. This is very difficult to maintain, and personally, I become very adverse to making changes. Though it appears vvpan has a link to a project attempting to fork(?) React's transformer to be usable in mithril.

    todo.view = function() {
        return m("html", [
            m("body", [
                m("input"),
                m("button", "Add"),
                m("table", [
                    m("tr", [
                        m("td", [
                            m("input[type=checkbox]")
                        ]),
                        m("td", "task description"),
                    ])
                ])
            ])
        ]);
    };

Not "attempting to fork", MSX is a JSX fork that outputs Mithril-compatible virtual DOM JS objects.

It works as advertised :-)

Since I've been called out twice on my use of language in this thread alone, I serious need an editor to proof my comments before I submit them from now on.

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