Thanks for sharing the examples -- really appreciated.
I'm not convinced that HTML is preferable to other representations of the DOM, particularly for representing UI's and applications (rather than documents). The clojure script wrappers for React I've seen seem to believe, for example, that lisp is better at representing the DOM than HTML and I tend to agree. Especially since any configured IDE should be pointing out missed commas and have rainbow parens.
One thing that is different between your examples and the DOM I've been creating with React is that I tend to make custom tags, and I don't end up with tons of repetitive looking stuff. Your last example is quite readable to my eyes, and would be even more so if perhaps decomposed into some helper functions and, of course, if loops were used and the DOM was populated from some data structure.
I'm not convinced that HTML is preferable to other representations of the DOM, particularly for representing UI's and applications (rather than documents). The clojure script wrappers for React I've seen seem to believe, for example, that lisp is better at representing the DOM than HTML and I tend to agree. Especially since any configured IDE should be pointing out missed commas and have rainbow parens.
One thing that is different between your examples and the DOM I've been creating with React is that I tend to make custom tags, and I don't end up with tons of repetitive looking stuff. Your last example is quite readable to my eyes, and would be even more so if perhaps decomposed into some helper functions and, of course, if loops were used and the DOM was populated from some data structure.