Rax – A universal React-compatible render engine
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#3Interesting that they don't compare it to preact: https://github.com/developit/preact
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#4Interesting that they don't compare it to preact: https://github.com/developit/preact
I thought the same. Their targets are Inferno and Preact.
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#5Interesting that they don't compare it to preact: https://github.com/developit/preact
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#6Funny story behind the line of Chinese React clones: the original goal of development was to make react work with ie6-9 (pirated winxp still is the "Default OS" here), but it came out that most of Chinese React forks are even less ie friendly than the original.
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#7Well, I see it only a smaller project created by people in the Weex community who prefer React syntax. They did not even talk much about it on Weex Conf. https://atf.alibaba.com/weex
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#8their repo is full of slightly adapted other packages. If they are 100% React compat, why would they need rax-redux? :-S
Re: Rax – A universal React-compatible render engine
#9Interesting that they don't compare it to preact: https://github.com/developit/preact
reading that, it seems pretty good. Are there performance costs to its diffing against the "real" DOM?
3kb for "React" is pretttttty tempting
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#10their repo is full of slightly adapted other packages. If they are 100% React compat, why would they need rax-redux? :-S
On the surface, the rax-redux implementation appears to be a lot simpler. For example, react-redux's connect spans all these files https://github.com/reactjs/react-redux/tree/75658dab18f7fe3e... and includes "connectAdvanced": https://github.com/reactjs/react-redux/blob/75658dab18f7fe3e...
While the rax-redux equivalent seems to be contained in a single file:
https://github.com/alibaba/rax/blob/07e20908e4e17b182873db09...
The simpler implementation might indicate that the rax developers are trimming overcomplicated bloat, or culling features that don't align with specific needs of Alibaba. Or maybe they're just removing code they don't yet understand the necessity for. It's not immediately clear what tradeoffs each are making, but having rax audit what's really necessary could be a good thing for everyone.