I imagine building this was a useful learning experience (and your intro blog post alludes to that), but keep in mind that Redux is much more a way of thinking about state transitions than it is a library for providing them.
The Elm architecture was the original inspiration for Redux, and I recommend running through the rest of the Elm examples [1] to decide if your removals from Redux are worth pursuing. Notably, how will you handle composing your action-reducers? Can you build the "dynamic list of counters" example without compromising the simplicity you're looking for?
[1] https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/blob/f8a...
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Elm is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It is known for its friendly error messages, helping you find issues quickly and refactor large projects with confidence. Elm is also very fast and very small when compared with React, Angular, Ember, etc.
This repo focuses on The Elm Architecture, an architecture pattern you see in all Elm programs. It has influenced projects like Redux that borrow core concepts but add many JS-focused ideas.
The Elm Architecture
The Elm Architecture is a simple pattern for architecting webapps. The core idea is that your code is built around a Model of your application state, a way to update your model, and a way to view your model.
To learn more about this, read the the official guide and check out this section which is all about The Elm Architecture. This repo is a collection of all the examples in that section, so you can follow along and compile things on your computer as you read through.
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After you install, run the following commands in your terminal to download this repo and start a server that compiles Elm for you:
git clone https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial.git
cd elm-architecture-tutorial
elm reactor
Now go to http://localhost:8000/ and start looking at the examples/ directory. When you edit an Elm file, just refresh the corresponding page in your browser and it will recompile!
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2 sourcesThanks. I'm glad you ask. The motivation was a web client for a research project at work. My first choice was React+Redux, since that's what we already use for our service Qiita, but I wanted something more lightweight.
I made the first prototype using Elm, but it was too painful to integrate with third party components, like CodeMirror[1].
I made the next prototype using yo-yo, but yo-yo is agnostic about state management, lacks inline CSS styles (by choice) and it's based in morphodom (which updates DOM nodes directly) whereas I preferred a virtual DOM approach like Snabbdom or Vidom.
I also considered choo.js, a framework based on yo-yo, but it has the same limitations as yo-yo. It was also very difficult to integrate third party components with it, e.g, CodeMirror, involving the creation of a portal[2], reminiscent of Elm ports.
I als
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o couldn't agree with some of its API choices like namespaces, router design and models as containers for state objects.
HyperApp is ~1kb, and takes inspiration from several sources: the Elm architecture[3], yo-yo/choo's API, the SAM pattern[4], Snabbdom and Vidom.
[1]: https://codemirror.net
[2]: https://github.com/trainyard/choo-codemirror#choo-codemirror)
[3]: https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/#the-elm...
[4]: http://sam.js.org