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ceedan on Feb 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Implement text editor DOM updates manually instea...

It is obvious, because when you use a component, it's usage is as a single root node.

<component /> should not render multiple root nodes.

tootie on Feb 28, 2015 [–]

  return <h2>label</h2><SubComponent />;

That's illegal and will fail to compile and it's not obvious why that should happen.

ceedan on March 4, 2015 | [–]

Because render is a function, and it should return a single value... because JavaScript.

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