template VS rfcs

I’ve been using to avoid the whole “create DOM elements in JS” thing, and it’s been working well so far:

https://github.com/retrohacker/template

This is exactly what I'm doing with my personal "framework" I use for client contracts. It's just Web Components with a handy class based wrapper. I call it Template, since it's based off tags.

It's a joy to work in, feels "frameworky" but it's standard web standards with <100 lines of convenience JS wrapped around it. There is no magic beyond what the browser provides - I like I like it that way.

https://github.com/retrohacker/template/

It's "open source" as a reference. Just using it for myself. There aren't many docs beyond notes to myself. You're welcome to kick the tires. If you like it I'd entertain PRs and stuff but it's such a small library forking is probably entirely reasonable to make your own flavor too.

Cheers and happy hacking!

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