React: Make the simple things hard and the hard things simple
React still feels like the prototype of something that one day could be really good. Some things needed to get there (highly IMHO): Async rendering (coming), better components (only one way to do it, no ES6 class components, decoupled state and lifecycle hooks), ...
... better intop with browser controls (especially forms, so buggy atm), JSX 2 with implicit `do` expressions, reduced boilerplate for lifecycle hooks, less ways to shoot yourself in the foot.
Implicit `do` expressions in JSX would let us do this. No more unreadable ternaries and `&&`!
github.com/facebook/jsx/i…
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React also needs more built-in conveniences. Handling conditional class names is annoying. There are packages that simplify this, but it's such a common thing to need that it should be built-in.
Correctly creating HOCs are also hard. You need to handle class and functional components differently, hoist the correct properties, forward refs, etc. React either needs to have built-in conveniences for creating HOCs or recommend something else.
