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📃The PHP Project That Inspired React
Before React, there was XHP 🧩
XHP (eXtensible Hypertext Preprocessor) was Facebook’s PHP extension that let developers write HTML directly inside PHP—safely and without messy string concatenation.
Instead of:
echo "<div class='user'>" . $userName . "</div>";
You could write:
<div class="user">{$userName}</div>
💡 Fun fact: React’s JSX was inspired by XHP!
The same ideas—structure, safety, and reusable UI components—eventually evolved into React’s component-driven model.
💻 ➡️ ⚛️ Next time you write JSX, remember where it all began!
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by mirnatul
mirnatul | Sciencx (2025-10-13T16:17:33+00:00) The PHP Project That Inspired React. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/10/13/the-php-project-that-inspired-react/
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