choo

choojs All of the upside and none of the downside of react No JSX and no compiler, all native js The main dev is paid by microsoft to do oss rust nowadays I use choo for my personal projects and have used it twice professionally https://github.com/choojs/choo#example The example is like 25 lines and introduces all the concepts Less moving parts than svelte

Mercury - https://github.com/Raynos/mercury Hyperapp - https://github.com/jorgebucaran/hyperapp Choo - https://github.com/choojs/choo

Try Choo (4kb ninja sword). I think the design really nails it: just enough architecture, tagged template literal rendering, functional DOM tree composition with an optional component system. I prefer to avoid stateful components in favor of pure rendering functions, as much as possible. Choo's renderer is based on morphdom, which is interesting because it diffs against the real DOM rather than maintaining a virtual one. I use monoapp, which is a fork of Choo allowing you to bring your own renderer (such as lit-html). https://github.com/choojs/choo https://github.com/jongacnik/monoapp

This looks really great, thank you! I might play with it this morning, with Choo! https://github.com/choojs/choo

I'm gonna go with a bit more unconventional advice: start small. React, Vue, Angular are massive projects with a ton of underlying libraries, patterns and concepts that you will be discouraged to learn initially. Start using a simple framework, reading the source code, maybe even writing your own to understand how everything works. Suggestions: https://github.com/hyperapp/hyperapp https://github.com/choojs/choo Also check out this redux + vanilla js exercise by a friend: http://ramonvictor.github.io/tic-tac-toe-js/ Learn ES6: https://egghead.io/courses/learn-es6-ecmascript-2015 Once you get a good grip of the language, and are comfortable writing code, you can jump into JSX, React, Vue, and later TypeScript. Enjoy!

You should check out https://github.com/choojs/choo (similar framework in 4kb) and other packages in its ecosystem — https://github.com/choojs/nanohtml (template strings to HTML elements)

On the front end: Choo is really solid and very little to learn. https://github.com/choojs/choo

chooooo https://github.com/choojs/choo

Very cool. Please add https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo and https://github.com/tachyons-css. (Too lazy to send a pull; sorry )

react is literally the opposite of what the parent described. It's a huge convoluted ecosystem that requires many new tools to use effectively and almost everything in the stack is complex to learn. compare to something like https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo which is actually tiny and simple

It was cool seeing a demo at the end made using Choo[1]. Choo is my favorite in the current sea of react clones. I like it because its tiny (4k vs react's ~200k). Choo supports server-side rendering. And its made out of smaller modules which are all independently useful (DOM generator, diff engine and router). Instead of using JSX files, choo uses ES6 tagged template literals. As a result the code doesn't need a compilation step at all. But you can still actually compile the templates if you want for better performance + a smaller JS bundle in production. Its great stuff. I'm a huge fan. [1] https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo

Yep. I did some swift development recently and while I absolutely loved the language I was struck with how much worse the uikit APIs are compared to react. There's nothing special about javascript the language. The nice thing about web development is that the really fast framework iteration cycles. And everyone complains about them, but as a result we have some fantastic APIs for UI development in javascript land now. (Eg, react.) What I want to see is someone port those lovely abstractions across to native languages. For example, a port of choo[1] to swift on top of uikit would be gloriously fast, efficient, small and easy to work with. [1] https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo

Choo! https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/choo