snack

A tiny, cross-browser, JavaScript library.

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Dec 2011	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
Jan 2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 2012	2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2012	2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2012	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 2012	2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 2012	2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 2012	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 2012	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2012	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2012	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 2012	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2012	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 2013	2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2013	2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Nov 2013	2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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tony_landis·Nov 1, 2013

Indeed. The whole reason for the existence of all these frameworks riot is being compared is to to simplify development. Angular has no dependancies. Knockout also has no dependancies, so it's actually 13k > than riot. For anyone who really serious about going minimal, here are some alternatives to jquery to build on. 9.7kb http://zeptojs.com/ 3.4kb https://github.com/rpflorence/snack 5.0kb https://github.com/julienw/dollardom/ 10kb http://xuijs.com/ <1kb https://github.com/honza/140medley What a riot!

In Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework

ryanflorence·Dec 14, 2011

Thanks for the great response Jeremy. It's a ton of fun to write. That's why. I absolutely love writing it. That alone is why I didn't pull the plug on it at work. I have great feelings of guilt for posting that article w/o talking more about the things I really enjoy about the language. I'm having blast with my SnackJS CoffeeScript branch. https://github.com/rpflorence/snack/tree/amd-coffee I think every JS developer should give CoffeeScript a spin in a side-project.

In A Case Against Using CoffeeScript

ryanflorence·Dec 14, 2011

> if/when browsers natively support CS. They won't, and source maps are not native support. Check out AMD with RequireJS (make sure you optimize) for your "import" stuff. I haven't incorporated optimization yet for the project, but you can see how it works with my snackJS project http://github.com/rpflorence/snack/tree/amd-coffee/lib

In A Case Against Using CoffeeScript