Steve Odom steveodom

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

	import React from "react";
	import { render } from "react-dom";

	const ParentComponent = React.createClass({
	getDefaultProps: function() {
	console.log("ParentComponent - getDefaultProps");
	},
	getInitialState: function() {
	console.log("ParentComponent - getInitialState");
	return { text: "" };

	// Q sample by Jeff Cogswell

	/*===========
	We want to call these three functions in sequence, one after the other:

	First we want to call one, which initiates an ajax call. Once that
	ajax call is complete, we want to call two. Once two's ajax call is
	complete, we want to call three.

	BUT, we don't want to just call our three functions in sequence, as this quick