cardboard-js VS van

Have you ever wondered how Routers work in frameworks and such? I did not. Until I had to write one for Cardboard. I discovered that they're actually pretty fun to build, and not at all weird or hacky.

That's just the peak of the iceberg, for a better vision of what it does, head over to the repo and check out the README and examples!

TLDR; The article is a bit lengthy. If you just want to check out the end result, feel free to jump to the to-do app or check out Cardboard over on GitHub.

Depends on what you consider minimal, but I enjoy working with PocketBase and VanJS[1]. However there is no component library built in (if this is what you were asking for).

[1]: https://vanjs.org/

The library does have Typescript definitions available to use.

https://github.com/vanjs-org/van#typescript-support

It's a very simple, yet powerful reactive framework, to create web applications without the need to write any HTML. You don't need to build, use JSX, or compile. It works out of the box, and it's plain JS. Similar to VanJS in philosophy but with another flavour, and different features.

A web-based Unix terminal with notable improvements, built with VanJS - https://vanjs.org/. Under 300 lines in total.

We've seen numerous efforts to bring in more modernized terminals and shells. VanJS goes with the other direction. Why not making building UI apps as simple as CLI programs so most of us aren't confined to the limitations of terminals? Indeed, even for the quest of modernizing terminals, VanJS is pretty good at it.