Agreed! About 5 or 6 years ago I wrote a library to demonstrate to my teams that JSX a) was not magic b) not limited to React. After that was done I became a little obsessed with making the library the fastest JSX renderer - which I think is still true: https://github.com/i-like-robots/hyperons

Add me to this club of JSX hackers: https://crwi.uk/posts/hiccup/

I used this approach to make a syntax highlighted text editor in < 5kb of JS: https://crwi.uk/experiments/text-editor/

Very cool - reminded me of https://github.com/creationix/dombuilder which I have... memories of. Shout out too to https://microjs.com/ for allowing me to relive some nostalgia.

Everything becomes Lisp in the end.

These are awesome (both parent comments). Love seeing that I'm not alone in my JSX curiosity.

With our powers combined we can reinvent the tiny fun internet.

Yeah this is essentially what I'm doing. Though I'm fighting with rollup in the process. Might drop down to ESBuild if I need it.