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tipiirai on Jan 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Riot – A React-like, 2.5K user interface library

Exactly. Loops and conditionals should give you enough power.

But in React you can arbitrarily change HTML because the render method returns a string to be compared to the earlier situation.

A tag name can change for example (which you rarely need).

masklinn on Jan 22, 2015 [–]

> But in React you can arbitrarily change HTML because the render method returns a string to be compared to the earlier situation.

I'm pretty sure the render method returns a vdom node (which the library can then diff and merge into the actual DOM)

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