[Discuss] Maybe we can use react or jsx as DSL

In my opinions, there is not many people use pugjs. And maybe we can use react as second choose. We can write some logic code, like below

const mockData = [{ name: 'stephen', sex: 'male', age: 25 }, { name: 'stephen', sex: 'male', age: 25 }, { name: 'stephen', sex: 'male', age: 25 }, { name: 'stephen', sex: 'male', age: 25 }];

const Item = props => (
  <div>
    <p>name: {props.name}</p>
    <p>sex: {props.male}</p>
    <p>age: {props.age}</p>
  </div>
);

const List = props => (
  <div>
    { mockData.map((item, index) => <Item name={item.name} male={item.male} age={item.age} key={index} />) }
  </div>
);

That is more powerful than just HTML, and can provide kinds of scenes to use.

[Zulko]

This sounds like a completely different project, with different objectives, a different stack, etc. the only common part with the current project would be the pdf generation with pupetteer, and that’s 3 lines. I totally get the appeal though, I’d do one based on Vue if I had time. But by proposing REACT as a framework you are restricting the software to hardcore frontend developers. Pug, on the other hand, has nothing scary about it, anyone with a bit of HTML experience can get started on making documents with it.

[Zulko]

It seems that there is a consensus not to add the feature, closing.