Ink: Why not a react renderer?

[naholyr]

Is there a specific reason you re-implement the whole react-like API instead of making it a custom renderer? I think about react-blessed here.
If there is no specific reason, how about making it a custom renderer?

[vadimdemedes]

There are multiple reasons:

• I wanted to learn how React's/Preact's diffing works and implement it
• React handles way more than Ink needed to
• I haven't found decent docs on how to make a custom React renderer and I didn't want to wait for Fiber
• I'm a JavaScript developer, that says it all 🤣

[naholyr]

Seems legit ;) I'd be interested in making a renderer, I'll try to play
with Ink for that part. Would you be interested in the result or is this
just not the desired direction?

Le mar. 11 juil. 2017 à 19:36, Vadim Demedes [e-mail] a
écrit :

There are multiple reasons:

• I wanted to learn how React's/Preact's diffing works and implement it
• React handles way more than Ink needed to
• I haven't found decent docs on how to make a custom React renderer
  and I didn't want to wait for Fiber
• I'm a JavaScript developer, that says it all 🤣

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[vadimdemedes]

I don't see the good enough reason of dropping the whole work done on Ink and switching to a custom renderer. Hope you understand my reasoning :)

Although, I'd be indeed interested how it could be implemented, so make sure to ping back with the results!