observable-slim

mples. I don't particularly understand the rush to rip jQuery out of everything. It seems like a lot of people are doing it just because it's the trending thing to do. There are some things that jQuery does very well -- even in today's world where modern web dev is dominated by SPA components. jQuery and SPAs don't have to be mutually exclusive. At my work, we've been building SPAs with jQuery long before Angular, React or Vue even existed. Within the past few years we built our own JavaScript SPA framework whose components can be written with vanilla JS or jQuery. Most of us prefer to use jQuery for our components because the syntax is often more expressive and concise than vanilla JS. We open sourced the framework at https://github.com/elliotnb/nimbly and it's state management utility at https://github.com/elliotnb/observable-slim Our framework core uses jQuery to update DOM nodes with `replaceWith`, merge deeply nested objects with `extend`, among other things. Aside from the eliminating the extra 69KB footprint from adding jQuery slim min, we don't see any reason to rush to rip jQuery out of the framework core. On the contrary, using jQuery helped us get the framework built faster and helped us keep the code expressive and easy-to-follow. Long live jQuery :)

of https://github.com/elliotnb/observable-slim and https://github.com/elliotnb/nimbly -- the latter of which is an SPA component framework whose core requires jQuery. It uses jQuery to update DOM nodes with `replaceWith`, merge deeply nested objects with `extend`, among other things. Nimbly components are not required to use jQuery -- only the framework core uses it. Aside from the eliminating the extra 69KB footprint from adding jQuery slim min, I don't see any reason to rush to rip jQuery out of the Nimbly core. On the contrary, using jQuery helped us get the framework built faster and helped us keep the code expressive and easy-to-follow.

d`, among other things. Nimbly components are not required to use jQuery -- only the framework core uses it. Aside from the eliminating the extra 69KB footprint from adding jQuery 3.1.1 slim min, I don't see any reason to rush to rip jQuery out of the Nimbly core. On the contrary, using jQuery helped us get the framework built faster and helped us keep the code expressive and easy-to-follow.

(templating, data binding, state management, no explicit DOM manipulations, automated unit testing, loosely coupled modular components, etc) but without the typical drawbacks of modern frameworks. The framework has far fewer abstractions than React or Vue, requires no domain specific language (i.e., you write in plain HTML, CSS and JS), and does not require compiling/transpiling. The framework embraces the DOM instead of abstracting away from it and still refreshes/re-renders components in a highly performant manner via DocumentFragments. We've used the framework fairly extensively at my work because it plays very nicely with our jQuery-heavy legacy code and allows for much easier re-factors. The observer library has gained a fair bit of interest from other developers (~2k monthly downloads via npm) and it'd be great if I could interest others in trying out the framework too. I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who takes the time to try it out. Other contributors would be fantastic.

d the framework fairly extensively at my work because it plays very nicely with our jQuery-heavy legacy code and allows for much easier re-factors. The observer library has gained a fair bit of interest from other developers (~600 downloads per week via npm) and it'd be great if I could interest others in trying out the framework too. I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who takes the time to try it out. Other contributors would be fantastic.