PIpier25·May 12, 2025
maybe you'll be interested to know v3 is in active development
https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/pull/2982
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34 sourcesMithril.js: small (8.96 KB gzipped) modern client-side JavaScript framework
38 points · Open discussionThe submitter creating multiple var -> let PRs (one PR per file...), was also doing this, including the one file per PR, in other projects, and would've broken some of their legacy IE(!) users.
https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/pull/2880#pullreques...
That's a particularly obnoxious bot. Didnt even follow their workflow...
I suppose it depends on scale, and the team size.
And Github issues are 80% support forums, 20% bugs, 5% of the bugs come with reproduction test cases, if you're lucky.
In Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PRI'd love to hear if anyone has other alternatives. I'm finding myself in a similar place as you do. I found on the About and Terms pages a few software projects listed, which the author claims are what powers Slimvoice:
- https://www.blender.org
- https://www.gimp.org
- https://golang.org
General tech ^ and libraries:
- https://github.com/aymerick/douceur
- https://github.com/jung-kurt/gofpdf
- https://github.com/lib/pq
- https://github.com/qiangxue/fasthttp-routing
- https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp
- https://github.com/valyala/quicktemplate
- https://github.com/bamiaux/rez
- https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js
And lastly, fonts:
- https://github.com/rsms/inter
- https://github.com/IBM/plex
- https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Work-Sans
Aggregated from from:
- https://slimvoice.co/about
- https:
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//slimvoice.co/terms
Copied URLs just in case those pages go kaput.
Mithril.js release a new version after 3 years
3 points · Open discussionI wouldn't consider myself a React expert because I basically stopped using it or recommending it once Vue came out, but stuff like:
- Needing shouldComponentUpdate to do anything nontrivial (it's a bad sign for what should be a library if people make "X demystified"[0] posts).
- The sheer amount of times React has been basically rewritten, with
- Hooks (to be fair Vue has this too, and it's not actually a bad feature, but as usual React introduced it in a near inscrutable way).
- Every react codebase cargo-culting into Flux (normally through redux) when all you really need most of the time is a simple AJAX call.
React had the initial idea, but it just feels like the stuff that came after (Vue in particular) delivered better on the simplicity we all wanted. There are so many little gotchas all over the place that people just paper over/me
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morize, when Vue 2/3 basically works as advertised right out of the box, need(ed?) less hacks, and you can get reasonably productive and performant in <1 day after reading all the docs.
Also I want to point out that "react" is almost always react + redux + react-router + webpack at the end of the day. The combined complexity is not worth it when compared to Vue in my opinion. These days if I want to use something, I do vue + vue-router + parcel and call it a day, and get productive much quicker though the ecosystem isn't quite as big. For uber-simplicity I like mithril[2][3] though -- but it falls down when you start looking at advanced features like SSR/rehydration.
React has the best third party support/ecosystem because of the amount of hype and OSS friendly companies that are using and benefiting from React. It also is the best corporate choice -- react developers are more fungible, you will benefit from more of the free work done by the F/OSS crowd, etc.
[0]: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/react-shouldcomponentupdat...
[1]: https://backbonejs.org/#View
[2]: https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/
[3]: https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/issues/1838
You can also take a look at mithril.js implementation of hyperscript [0]
[0] https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/blob/next/render/hyperscript.js
In What if we'd had better HTML-in-JS syntax all along?There are some fairly standard vdom benchmarks you could implement instead.
https://github.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark
https://localvoid.github.io/uibench/
Or even just something following mithril’s own benchmark suite:
https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/blob/next/performanc...
In Show HN: 33 line ReactI second Mithril with JSX. I've been using for a couple of months and it's amazing.
I started working on making the JSX docs a little better but got stalled... hopefully I will have some time later this month.
https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/pull/2551
In The web as a GUI toolkithttps://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/blob/next/README.md#...
> ”What is Mithril?”
> ”A modern client-side Javascript framework for building Single Page Applications. It's small (9.55 KB gzipped), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box.”
In Mithril.js 2.0 ReleasedContext: I'm pretty sure the parent (to this comment), lhorie, is the creator of Mithril:
https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/graphs/contributors
Thanks to you and the team of contributors for your continued hard work on Mithril! I'm having a blast using it.
In Alternatives to JSXSince you asked for simplest…
In a.js:
module.exports = (arg) => {
return arg * 3;
};
In a.test.js:
// require module to test
const testedFunction = require('./a.js');
// testing
console.log("Default export", "should multiply argument by two:", true &&
testedFunction(3) === 3 * 2
);
In package.json:
"scripts": {
"test": "for file in *test*; do node ${file}; done"
}
In your shell:
$ npm run test
A few things to note:
* Node.js has console.assert() but it is really noisy.
* console.group() could be used to… group assertions and indent output.
* This works for ES6 modules, too, with --experimental-modules and .mjs extensions.
If you want something serious but still lightweight, there's always https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/tree/next/ospec.
In Ask HN: Simplest JavaScript Testing Setup?This looks similar in many ways to mithril[1] -- somewhat similar api - mount, view, r("input") vs m("input"). The counter example[2] looks similar[3] I'd be interested in seeing comparisons between the two.
[1] https://mithril.js.org/
[2] https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/blob/5956314e3655a3c...
[3] https://github.com/radi-js/radi/blob/master/examples/counter...
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