ViewModel string binding syntax?

[joshski]

Not ready to merge, posting this for feedback.

Since we are deprecating render functions, we should mostly be able to lose the weird [model, 'property'] binding syntax in favour of just 'property', because ViewModels are usually binding to this, e.g:

// instead of:
class ViewModel {
  render() {
    return h('input', { type: 'text', binding: [this, 'text'] })
  }
}

// ...can we do this now?
class ViewModel {
  render() {
    return h('input', { type: 'text', binding: 'text' })
  }
}

Wrote a failing test but got a bit lost trying to make it pass :) -- what do you think of this idea?

[artemave]

What is ViewModel again? :)

[refractalize]

What about this: babel-plugin-transform-jsx-hyperdom-binding

In

<input type="text" binding="item[n].method().name"/>

Out

hyperdom.jsx("input", { type: "text", binding: [item[n].method(), "name"] });

[joshski]

I don't use jsx 😜

[joshski]

...or babel 😂

[joshski]

This is just a weird idea. I take it back.