> when I first saw the React syntax Do you mean JSX? Because "the React syntax" ...

iLoch · on Jan 29, 2015

Yeah, JSX. Whoops!

masklinn · on Jan 29, 2015

Yeah it's completely optional, facebook built it because they had built something similar previously and they like it, and I guess it may be simpler for "pure" designers used to HTML and stuff, but it's AOT-compiled to the corresponding JS calls and the mapping is fairly simple:

    <Component1 attr1="value1" attr2={foo}>
        <Component2/>
        <Component3/>
    </Component1>

becomes (more or less)

    Component1(
        {attr1: "value", attr2: foo},
        Component2(),
        Component3()
    );