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On the one hand I am glad they are continuing to enhance TypeScript. On the other hand I am concerned that TypeScript is becoming a very bloated language. If you have seen the latest edition of Stroustrup’s C++ Programming Language book you know what a bloated language looks like. Is that where TypeScript is headed?

Programming languages are not like your Word or Excel where more features is better. Some programming language designers take pride in how small the language is, for example Kernighan and Ritchie. I worry that as long as Microsoft has Program Managers and Development Leads assigned to TypeScript and their job performance is measured by the number of features they add, TypeScript is going to get more and more bloated with obscure features.

If that’s bizarre consider the fact that Microsoft does credit check on employees every two years, as a condition of employment, and you can be fired if something really bad shows up. This is for employees that work in the Azure division and the purpose is to reassure customers who host their data on Azure.

Sorry, that’s not making sense. In the MVC I am used to there’s only one controller active at one time and that controller owns the entire screen.

If your model layer objects are firing events you have problems already because it obscures the call graph. I try to avoid that style. The controller should update the model objects, then if a view update is needed it should be triggered by the controller not the model layer object.

Can you put a breakpoint in the template?

In .tsx templates you can.

Templates frequently need loops and conditionals. In the case of .tsx this logic is in TyprScipt so you can debug it just like any other TypeScript. In the case of Angular such logic is written in an undebuggable custom syntax.

So basically you prefer something more along the lines of Model View Controller. Me too. When React was first released it was advertised as “the ‘V’ in MVC”. Unfortunately the developer community took it in a different direction.

Have you considered using MVC? It works well. Search the complementary tools page of React.

JSX standard is independent of React and can be used with Web Components. Also, HTML import is unnecessary to use Web Components. The key technologies in Web Components are ShadowDOM and Custom Elements.

Which Javascript MVC framework did you use? Some people who used Angular hated it and conclude that MVC is horrible. No, Angular is horrible, not MVC.

None of these problems are unique to web development. How do you solve these problems in iOS? In iOS you use MVC, and the Application object holds the state as a tree. MVC has a better solution to all these problems.

Redux is unnecessary complexity. Anyone considering it, please do yourself a favor: check out an MVC framework and see how simple it is. Remember, when React first came out they described at as "React is the V in MVC." Adopt MVC in your project and watch your productivity soar.

Note: Some people believe that MVC implies two-way data binding. This is false.

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