eureka VS choose-mithril

Here's an example vanilla JS app: https://github.com/Rajeev-K/eureka It is not at all hard to read, and easy to maintain. I would love to get feedback if you don't agree.

I used two TINY libs in this project. The first is this 500-line router: https://github.com/Rajeev-K/mvc-router and the second is this 200-line template library: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

I have written large enterprise apps using these libs.

I have noticed newer generations of developers believe they need heavy frameworks like React to develop web applications. Most apps don't need such heavy frameworks. Here's a 500-line "framework" (if you can call it that) https://github.com/Rajeev-K/mvc-router and here's an example app built using it: https://github.com/Rajeev-K/eureka For templates I used https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder which is a 200-line lib. This is about as "close to the metal" as you can get, and still be productive.

Another selling aspect for me is the dirty checks mithril uses and how efficient the redrawing engine runs. While not a Svelte/Mithril comparison, this write up explains some the key goodies of mithril.

Hi Leo. Thanks for creating Mithril.

Likewise at work I currently have to deal with React and its challenges. I have previously built other applications in Mithril (and still do in my spare time). I much prefer Mithril. But sadly React has so much more mindshare which was persuasive to management despite that. The only plus to that is that I can increasingly see firsthand how better the developer ergonomics are for Mithril over React, and eventually wrote the essay about that linked below.

As an example on libraries and React patterns, the emphasis on Redux for React in particular can rapidly create messy bloated codebases that are hard to maintain. That is due to the accidental complexity in React by its premature optimization of requiring use of setState() on components to queue redraws and then how Redux tries to wrap that to support global state. Mithril by contrast makes it possible for developers to store state however they want by the brilliance of (by default) just assuming any time the user touches the UI (via anything with an added event handler like for a button press) that the UI needs to be rerendered (unless the developer choose otherwise).

Here's a longer list of reasons why I prefer Mithril to React: https://github.com/pdfernhout/choose-mithril "l;dr: Choose Mithril whenever you can for JavaScript UI development because Mithril is overall easier to use, understand, debug, refactor, and maintain than most other JavaScript-based UI systems. That ease of use is due to Mithril's design emphasis on appropriate simplicity – including by leveraging the power of JavaScript to define UIs instead of using an adhoc templating system. Mithril helps you focus on the essential complexity of UI development instead of making you struggle with the accidental complexity introduced by problematically-designed tools. Many popular tools emphasize ease-of-use through looking familiar in a few narrow situations instead of emphasizing overall end-to-end simplicity which -- after a short learning curve for Mithril -- leads to greater overall ease-of-use in most situations."

You rock, Leo!!! Thanks again for making the programming world a better place.