Not sure what you mean with "black box magic". I always think of React as being exactly that (coming from someone who generally prefers vanilla instead of using frameworks)?
I meant that while React functional components may be very little code compared to the class-based HTMLElement or LitElement or what have you, it is worth having a bit more code if it means roughly no black box magic and it is interoperable and aligns with browser standards (DOM vs Virtual DOM to name an example)
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Not sure what you mean with "black box magic". I always think of React as being exactly that (coming from someone who generally prefers vanilla instead of using frameworks)?
I meant that while React functional components may be very little code compared to the class-based HTMLElement or LitElement or what have you, it is worth having a bit more code if it means roughly no black box magic and it is interoperable and aligns with browser standards (DOM vs Virtual DOM to name an example)
It's not either-or. There are many web component libraries with an FP flavour:
Just off the top of my head.
Web Components !== OOP
You don't have to give up your functional programming style to use web components!
More importantly:
React isn't the only functional UI framework
Preact works just fine with the DOM and has for years.
OP is about web compat, not flaming FP or OOP styles.