bonsai

The value proposition about this web framework over things like React, Phoenix, etc is that it uses incremental computing right ? Using Jane Street's incremental computing library. I see it being used at https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/f31661450eb133fe89...

Basically most of Jane Street's published code[0] via its dependency on Core. [0]: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/f31661450eb133fe89...

Functional doesn't mean stateless. I'd argue functional programming is superior for representing state in user interfaces. For a success implementation, see Jane Street's Bonsai: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai

If you find this interesting, also check out their UI library called Bonsai that built on top of Incremental: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/ Libraries like React are pretty efficient with skipping work by using Virtual Dom, but constructing this vdom still takes time. Bonsai makes the vdom incremental and it is pretty fun to work with. I built a desktop UI library with it by targeting (now unmaintained) Revery. It is using a much older version of Bonsai however: https://github.com/ozanvos/bonsai_revery

Very interesting! This somehow seems convergent with the model-level incrementalization approach that incr_dom [1] and its successor bonsai [2] are using. Have you had a chance to compare these? [1]: https://github.com/janestreet/incr_dom | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xX37RGJKE [2]: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/master/docs/blogs/...

If you haven't seen the Bonsai OCaml library, they provide an arrow based interface for making web apps. I find it very straight forward to use and everything is based around composing functions. A "component" is: type ('a, 'b) t = 'a Value.t -> 'b Computation.t and then there's various ways to hook them up and depend on each other. https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/master/docs/proc.m... Gives a bit of an overview. There are some syntax extensions to make working with it a bit easier. But once grokked it seems to fit nicely, and feels like more of a solid foundation than React (imo). Not all the examples have been updated to the new style, but here's one (albeit trivial) example: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/blob/master/examples/tw...

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai is making some interesting distinctions between "UI state" and "model state". They're kept separate and they're working on utilities to manage the use of composed components.