PEpekim·Dec 21, 2023
The library does have Typescript definitions available to use.
https://github.com/vanjs-org/van#typescript-support
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🍦 VanJS: World's smallest reactive UI framework. Incredibly Powerful, Insanely Small - Everyone can build a useful UI app in an hour.
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What Hacker News says
9 sourcesVanJS App Builder: A GPT That Builds Web Apps with VanJS
2 points · Open discussionAn Improved Unix Terminal – Demo App for VanJS
2 points · Open discussionThe "framework" here is exceptionally small. You can read the whole thing: https://github.com/vanjs-org/van/blob/main/src/van.js
Personally, it doesn't do enough that I'd seriously consider using it, even for a project where minimal dependencies and build steps were a priority
In VanJS: Vanilla JavaScript Reactive UI FrameworkMany frameworks do exactly that, including React and https://github.com/vanjs-org/van
In That people produce HTML with string templates is telling us somethingI agree with you and I opened https://github.com/vanjs-org/van/issues/18
In VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI frameworkThis is really just a DSL to make dom:
https://github.com/vanjs-org/van/blob/3f98060971a8ff141179ef...
And a very simple system that replaces the dom from scratch each time any data changes:
https://github.com/vanjs-org/van/blob/3f98060971a8ff141179ef...
That's bad for performance (recomputing the style/layout and repainting even for minor changes), bad for accessibility, breaks focus, etc.
It's unlikely the smaller bundle size compared to preact and friends wins anything once you've abandoned all reuse of the rendering engine computations.
In VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI frameworkI like this, but https://github.com/vanjs-org/van#ultra-lightweight should really list svelte, which is only 1.6-1.8kB compiled last I checked (though it's possible it makes some of the compiled markup that gets shipped larger than the source due to component style scoping)
In VanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI frameworkVanJS (Vanilla JavaScript): smallest reactive UI framework
252 points · Open discussion