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Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

petehunt

/** @jsx React.DOM */
var MyComponent = React.createClass({
  getInitialState: function() {
    // set up the initial state. used for "logical" initialization code
    return {perMinute: '-', perDay: '-'};
  },
  componentDidMount: function() {
    // fired only once, when the component is added to the DOM
    // used for initialization code that has "side effects" i.e. i/o, jquery plugins, etc
    var socket = io.connect(this.props.url);