# Can Reactjs be used as a View within Emberjs?

**URL:** https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/can-reactjs-be-used-as-a-view-within-emberjs/3470
**Category:** Proposals
**Created:** [November 30, 2013, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.emberjs.com/t/can-reactjs-be-used-as-a-view-within-emberjs/3470 "2013-11-30T10:04:04Z")
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Hi @tarasm, Sorry if I’m being dense about this, but I’m not yet seeing the difference. It seems Ember Views also have “template & javascript mixed together”. Here’s how I would write your example in Ember:

```auto
var LikeButton = Ember.View.extend({
  init: function() {
   this._super()
    this.set('liked', false};
  },
  likedText: function(){
    return(this.get('liked') ? 'like' : 'unlike')
  }.property('liked'),

  click: function(event) {
    this.set('liked', !this.get('liked')); // or this.toggleProperty('liked')
  },
  template: Ember.Handlebars.compile("
    <p>
        You {{likedText}} this. Click to toggle.
    </p>
  ")
});

LikeButton.create().appendTo('#example')

```

Help me understand – how is this different than React.js? We’ve changed some names (e.g. `render` =\> `template`, `handleClick` =\> `click`) but, as far as I can tell, the code samples are nearly identical.

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