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		throw_m239339 on July 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Build your own web framework React can be used as a templating library server-side in a node environment (like handlebars). It's a bit heavy for the task but it works.

crooked-v on July 29, 2022 [–]

A huge benefit React (and anything else that uses JSX) has over text-based templating is that you can strictly lint/typecheck JSX because ultimately it's just syntactic sugar over plain JS.

likeclockwork on July 29, 2022 | [–]

You can typecheck anything there exists a typechecker for.

Vue templates are typechecked for example.

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