I generally try out everything made by WebReflection because he is a fantastic developer
And he never tires of pointing out to everybody that React is a costly abstraction (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
but your example with µhtml you're just calling render in a fixed interval, but that render expects the output of html,
Which is exactly what one does when rendering with a library.
React is just making that "interval" for you. Does that turn it into a framework from your PoV?
The point is that a functional component is nothing but a glorified (but "tailored") render() function.
But the difference is that in the case of µhtml the user code is always in control - html and render are simply helper functions for generating and placing the DOM nodes so that the user code doesn't have to deal with them directly making the user code more declarative than manipulating the DOM manually.
In React the user code doesn't call function components ("tailored render functions"); the function components are user code which are handed over to React which then invokes them as it deems fit - that is what makes React a framework.
That said I have yet to run across a VDOM library - all VDOM abstractions I have encountered are operating in the manner of a framework.
And he never tires of pointing out to everybody that React is a costly abstraction (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8).
Which is exactly what one does when rendering with a library.
The point is that a functional component is nothing but a glorified (but "tailored")
render()function.But the difference is that in the case of µhtml the user code is always in control -
htmlandrenderare simply helper functions for generating and placing the DOM nodes so that the user code doesn't have to deal with them directly making the user code more declarative than manipulating the DOM manually.In React the user code doesn't call function components ("tailored render functions"); the function components are user code which are handed over to React which then invokes them as it deems fit - that is what makes React a framework.
That said I have yet to run across a VDOM library - all VDOM abstractions I have encountered are operating in the manner of a framework.
I'm familiar with Jason Miller's work.