ficusjs-renderers VS rfcs

I'm particularly fond of the new native JS Web Components which require no build process and are extremely fast and purely client-side. When developed well it can also reduce the bundle size because it can use dynamic imports. I played around with making a SPA out of it and only got frustrated with its lack of React-like JSX. This could be overcome with tagged literals.

This example uses the @ficusjs/renderers package which provides a browser-ready ES module using the htm library.

The hello world example creates a new custom element using the createComponent function and registers it to the hello-world tag. It uses the lit-html renderer (multiple renderers are available) for creating HTML from tagged template literals.

Examples from the conversations of that time:

> ...we want closures to capture the values we rendered with, and to keep "seeing" those values forever. That's really important for concurrent mode where a notion of current value doesn't really exist. Hooks design models a component as being in many non-clashing states at the same time, instead of switching the "current" state (which is what classes model well). People don't really need to think about these details, but they're motivating the design a lot. [0]

> In Concurrent Mode, render may run more then one time, and since this in a class is mutable, renders that should be the same may not be. [1]

[0] - https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68#issuecomment-4778866...

[1] - https://tkplaceholder.io/why-function-components-fit-react-b...

There are multiple names for this hook. You can find the documentation under the names useEvent or useEffectEvent.

-https://www.patterns.dev/ -https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/blob/main/text/0188-server-components.md -https://dev.to/this-is-learning/qwik-the-post-modern-framework-3c5o -https://dev.to/this-is-learning/astro-framework-169m -https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-on-the-web -https://web.dev/vitals/

However, in React, function components can return a ReactNode. This type includes number | string | Iterable | undefined and will likely also include Promise( in the future.

I was also hoping that useEvent would eliminate some weird dependency cases, who knows when that will actually happen (https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/220).

Given a lot of unknowns on SSR and ReactEng working on RSC it feels like the wrong move to use next.js and I should just use normal react. For basic react is create react app the way to go or vite?

As mentioned before, Next.js takes a stance of treating every component as a Server Component by default. If you want to use a Client Component, you'll need to annotate the file with use client; directive at the top of the component file.

Use client is actually a React convention for what it’s worth. https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/227