On: React, JSX, and CoffeeScript

[cordite]

Wow, that is really concise!

ClojureScript also has a nice react kind-of-thing (now named reagent), though all the parenthesis makes it more noisy.

[vmind → cordite]

There are actually two main React libraries for ClojureScript, Om[1] and Reagent[2]. There are also other libraries for doing the templating if you prefer hiccup[3] or enlive[4] style templates, which I find a bit more readable than straight function calls.

Overall though, React seems to be shaping up as a great solution for building reactive templates that isn't tied into larger frameworks like the solutions within AngularJS or Ember.js.

[1]: https://github.com/swannodette/om

[2]: https://github.com/holmsand/reagent

[3]: https://github.com/r0man/sablono

[4]: https://github.com/ckirkendall/kioo

[bslatkin → cordite]

There's also Om:

https://github.com/swannodette/om/wiki/Basic-Tutorial

[chc → bslatkin]

There are three ClojureScript React libraries I've seen, each with a very different approach.

Reagent is basically just a native interface to React.

Om sort of reimplements React on top of React with a few modifications to make it more ClojureScripty (e.g. taking advantage of persistent data structures for state).

Quiescent takes React and turns it into a simple rendering library, leaving out any concept of state management.

[Gonzih → bslatkin]

Which is actually how you should use React to get performance benefits out of language, not just fancy syntactic sugar.

[Gonzih → cordite]

All the parenthesis does not affect noisiness in any way. Common misconception. They actually make things much cleaner and nicer.

[cordite → Gonzih]

Eh, I beg to differ, coming from the Haskell world.

I think what you are appreciating is the tree-but I may be wrong in my supposition.