domchanger

Hey Leo, I must say, I've also become disillusioned with MVC for front-end frameworks, actually after using Mithril [1]. I'm sure you've seen me lurking and asking questions in the repo since before Mithril got big. I used it on a few projects and decided the controller was not an abstraction that made much sense. I looked elsewhere and stumbled upon domchanger [2] but after trying to use it seriously and forking some changes also ran into many impasses. This is what inspired me to develop domvm [3], a simple, pure-js composable vdom view layer for plain models. I took a few of Mithril's good ideas, removed globals, made the magic as opt-in modules (so a bit more wiring is needed) and ended up with something extremely fast (at least 2.5x Mithril), composable and mixed imperative/declarative. It's been a good journey and I'm very happy whe

Interesting. In terms of "React alternatives that are tiny", I have a really big soft spot for domChanger[0]. Really cute syntax, and it works pretty well -- I built most of a TodoMVC implementation with it and Hoverboard[1] (a tiny Flux implementation). I also completed a partial "Flux Challenge" implementation with that same combo [2]. [0] https://github.com/creationix/domchanger [1] https://github.com/jesseskinner/hoverboard [2] https://github.com/girvo/domchanger-hoverboard-flux-challeng...

> I wish something like Elm was mature enough. So do I :) If you're not 100% up on Flux, I recommend having a play with Hoverboard[0] -- it's a tiny implementation of the Flux architecture, with some interesting choices itself. It's a single function, too, which is pretty neat! I've been using it to implement the "Flux Challenge" in combination with domChanger[1] instead of React: https://github.com/girvo/domchanger-hoverboard-flux-challeng... And here's a partial TodoMVC implementation I wrote in Hoverboard and domChanger: https://github.com/studionone/todomvc-domchanger-hoverboard --- [0] https://github.com/jesseskinner/hoverboard [1] https://github.com/creationix/domchanger