create-ficus-app VS ficusjs-renderers

Rocket is a tool used for creating web pages and it is fabulous for generating static content starting from markdown files. One of the cool thing about Rocket is the fact that web components and javascript can be used inside the markdown files. ​ Creating a project with Rocket is quite straightforward, you can take a look at the documentation or if you like to learn by looking at examples, you can find good ones in the Rocket’s GitHub repository . ​ This guide is created for getting you started with Rocket and FicusJS. FicusJS is a set of lightweight functions for developing applications using web components. ​ Using the Create Ficus App CLI you can quickly scaffold a project that contains a basic structure for working with Rocket and FicusJS. ​ The project will contain:

The tool we are going to use creates a starter project quickly and easily using 11ty and FicusJS. The tool of choice is Create Ficus App. It is a simple tool that makes creating new projects quick and easy.

I'm particularly fond of the new native JS Web Components which require no build process and are extremely fast and purely client-side. When developed well it can also reduce the bundle size because it can use dynamic imports. I played around with making a SPA out of it and only got frustrated with its lack of React-like JSX. This could be overcome with tagged literals.

This example uses the @ficusjs/renderers package which provides a browser-ready ES module using the htm library.

The hello world example creates a new custom element using the createComponent function and registers it to the hello-world tag. It uses the lit-html renderer (multiple renderers are available) for creating HTML from tagged template literals.