[Tarks]

The escape hatches were one of the first things I used to explain why I initially liked react, called them exactly that too.

"They're smart enough to know they're not smart enough to build perfect abstractions, so they do a great job but leave escape hatches just in case"

[quickthrower2]

This is why I felt out with Elm. It is harder to escape the hatches with it.

[mejutoco]

You can use the ports system and interoperate with js in Elm. I used it in the past and it is quite a clean abstraction.

[aliswe]

you dont escape hatches; you escape THROUGH the hatches