The Joy of Composition - Why stateless rendering is pure bliss

joy-of-composition.md

This is a proposal for a lightning talk at the Reactive 2015 conference.

NOTE: If you like this, star ⭐ the Gist - the amount of stars decides whether it makes the cut!

The Joy of Composition

Why stateless rendering is pure bliss

React just got stateless components, meaning that they are in essence pure functions for rendering. Pure functions make it dead simple - even fun - to refactor your views into more manageable pieces.

As the author of hyperscript-helpers and an avid user of Elm, I have fallen in love with functional UI composition. Inspired by @staltz's To JSX or not to JSX discussion, specifically this comment: "Most UI tree code should look small.", I would love to share the joys of applying functional programming principles into dynamic UI rendering.

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I would come along just for this talk! ⭐ 🌟 ⭐

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@JamieDixon 👍 That’s what I was thinking too!

Tweet the word folks! Surprizingly, one of my tweets has just reached a wide audience: https://twitter.com/TopReactJSNews/status/654153676433395712.

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. I would give it five stars and add it to my Netflix queue if possible. You think you could make a point of touching upon how one could combine stateless UI composition with reading and writing data to a server/store?

@rkeurel Sure. I think keeping the UI and the data in sync is one of the greatest benefits of the approach.

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@ohanhi, do you know what position we’re on in the race?

@tomekwi, Not really, no. I haven't found a list of all the proposals. But they told to tweet the link with #GoReactive, so you can try searching the tweets. I think we're doing pretty well, but see for yourself. :)

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