Mill as a direct style build tool

We’ve briefly covered what Mill is above, but one question remains: why Mill? Why not one of the other 100 build tools out there? Mill is unique in that it shares many of its core design decisions with React.js , the popular Javascript UI framework. I was among the first external users of React when I introduced it to Dropbox in 2014, and while people gripe about it today, React was really a revolution in how Javascript UIs were implemented. UI flows that used to take weeks suddenly took days, requiring a fraction of the code and complexity that they previously took to implement Letting users write "direct style" code to define their UI - Javascript functions that directly returned the HTML structure you wanted - rather than a "code behind" approach of registering callbacks to mutate the UI in response to events While React does a huge number of clever things - virtual dom diffing , JSX , de/re-hydration , etc. - all of those are only in service of the two fundamental ideas. e.g. At ... Read full article.