I also came from a XAML background to React and had the same feeling.
This is a long shot, since most people have a love/hate relationship with the VisualStateManager, but I have been trying to build a declarative visual state thing over at https://github.com/jgable/react-vsm. It's not done, only messed around over a couple weekends, but the gist is there.
This is a long shot, since most people have a love/hate relationship with the VisualStateManager, but I have been trying to build a declarative visual state thing over at https://github.com/jgable/react-vsm. It's not done, only messed around over a couple weekends, but the gist is there.