Hyperscript Tagged Markup: JSX alternative using standard tagged templates

Post by atombender » Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 4:08 PM UTC

dmitriid wrote: post #85

atombender wrote: post #55

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No, that's incorrect. Interpolations (${}) are preserved. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Let's return to the original statement, shall we? > These are tagged templates, not strings. They work as code at runtime, and it already has support to optimize it, compile it, etc. So. How exactly do they "work as code" and "have support to optimize it, compile it, etc."? Here's HTM's main function https://github.com/developit/htm/blob/master/src/index.mjs#L... It: concatenates strings, parses (via regexes), then c…

Post by dmitriid » Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 1:22 PM UTC

atombender wrote: post #91

dmitriid wrote: post #85

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Let's return to the original statement, shall we? > These are tagged templates, not strings. They work as code at runtime, and it already has support to optimize it, compile it, etc. So. How exactly do they "work as code" and "have support to optimize it, compile it, etc."? Here's HTM's main function https://github.com/developit/htm/blob/master/src/index.mjs#L... It: concatenates strings, parses (via regexes), then c…

I was responding to your false assertion that f`s` is the exact equivalent of f("s"), which only holds true without interpolations. f`a${b}c`) becomes f("a", b, "c"). Secondly, the answer is Babel. Since the string's components are part of the AST, it can optimize and compile it as the original poster claimed.