xhp-js vs hack-codegen

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xhp-js		hack-codegen
	Project
2	Mentions	1
55	Stars	337
-	Growth	0.6%
0.0	Activity	3.4
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	10 months ago
Hack	Language	Hack
MIT License	License	MIT License

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xhp-js

Posts with mentions or reviews of xhp-js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-31.

LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2023

They also made XHP-JS, though it seems inactive.
https://engineering.fb.com/2015/07/09/open-source/announcing...
https://github.com/hhvm/xhp-js
Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021

There is: it's called XHP (https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/XHP/introduction).
That said, I'm not sure how you'd go about server-side rendering React from Hacklang, as it seems that the open-source solution to do so is no longer supported (https://github.com/hhvm/xhp-js).

hack-codegen

Posts with mentions or reviews of hack-codegen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-27.

Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021

There's also https://github.com/hhvm/hack-codegen/tree/master/examples/do..., along with the article at https://engineering.fb.com/2015/08/20/open-source/writing-co...
This is modern Hack code, but not representative of the state of the Ent framework nowadays - ent/ent is closer design-wise, but not usable from Hack.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xhp-js and hack-codegen you can also consider the following projects:

fbshipit - Copy commits between repositories · git → git, git → hg, hg → hg, or hg → git

OCRJS - Extracting characters from image using tesseract.js (OCR) Javascript .

Boston-PHP-Meetup-Examples - Boston PHP Meetup examples

HHVM - A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack.

ent - An entity framework for Go

xhp-lib - Class libraries for XHP. XHP is a Hack feature that augments the syntax of the language such that XML document fragments become valid Hack expressions.

user-documentation - Documentation for those that use HHVM and write Hack code.

pallene - Pallene Compiler