I’ve been working with React components for about the last 3 years now, with a variety of different state-management conventions being employed, from internal state to object literals to Backbone models to Redux. One of the things I enjoy the most about React is the simplicity of swapping out templates based on whatever logic you want to use. You can have functions that are conditionally called and output template fragments, you can inline your logic as part of a template itself, or you can have entirely different components to render your output conditionally, based on some logic determined by a parent component.
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