ATatum47·Aug 4, 2026
> You don't need React
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I wrote TinyJS - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/TinyJS
In You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScriptvictorqribeiro
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TinyJS
Tiny JS is a lightweight JavaScript utility for dynamically creating HTML elements
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What Hacker News says
8 sourcesI never liked React, but after working with it for several years, I got use to it. Specially JSX. Pretty neat to mix html and js in the same code. That actually inspired me to write tinyJS - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/tinyjs
Later I've a managed state, cause let's agree, it's pretty convenient to have UI updated after a change in the state.
In Does Anybody Actually Like React?On my first official job after college I was working on making a web version of a Delphi software. The team was already on their third rewrite of the front end cause they had to change frameworks. I made the cass that we should write our own framework, so I prototyped FOS (the components I use on my website) to prove my point. The team (a bunch of mostly Delphi programmers) did not like my suggestion. Anyways, soon after that another company made me a better offer so I left. Years went by an I finally take a shot at another framework: tiny.js [1]. I've been using it in all my personal projects so far. I'm particular proud of the ColorPicker [2] component I wrote that I've used in two projects so far. As you can see, one can argue that tiny.js it's not a framework at all, just some wrapper functions that helps you create Functional compone
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Show HN: TinyJs React like framework in 35 lines of code
Hi HN, I got to work yesterday and today and came up with a very simple way to create and manage state in TinyJS.
I end up creating a simple App to illustrate how to use the new createState function and custom components in a React like manner. Here's the code for it - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/tinyapp
Here's the PR for the createState function - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/TinyJS/pull/9
43 points · Open discussion> if not React, then what?
TinyJS?! http://github.com/victorqribeiro/tinyjs
In If not React, then what?TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$
102 points · Open discussionok, so, from this ideia came TinyJS and I just released it on GitHub https://github.com/victorqribeiro/TinyJS
In Show HN: A better way of writing HTML via JavaScript?Show HN: Tiny JS – A Tiny JavaScript Library for Easy DOM Creation
Hi everyone, the other day I was here cause I thought I came up with a neat way of creating HTML via JavaScript [1] - After some iterations, I'm quite content with the code I wrote. Since I intend to use this in my personal projects, I thought others might as well.
1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41451559
7 points · Open discussion