hyperdom

> With React there's no weird "v-if ng-if" template logic that you have to grapple with. To me, Handlebars already gave me enough taste of how horrible and limiting maintaining template logic outside of components is. React was a good step in the right direction. But IMO they lost the plot with things like: - shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps, nextState) - componentDidUpdate(prevProps, prevState, snapshot) and the whole props vs state thing. This adds so much unnecessary complexity to the code base. Thankfully I can get all the benefits of the react style without any of the awkwardness of its API with hyperdom https://github.com/featurist/hyperdom

I agree. The more alternatives to react and angular the better. React has a massive API for what is something essentially quite simple. Personally my favourite "alternative" rendering library is hyperdom. Fast, simple and just gets the job done. https://github.com/featurist/hyperdom/

I was hoping they were going to simplify the lifecyles but it looks like they are adding more. Since I switched to hyperdom[0] I haven't missed lifecycles at all. In fact my app has practically none of the "plumbing" code that my old react apps seemed to have. Hyperdom is so much simpler but seems to be just as powerful. [0] http://github.com/featurist/hyperdom/