enhance-starter-project VS fast

With all this in mind, one of the first side projects I spun up for myself after joining Begin in 2022 was to investigate how we could make responsive images easier for users to author in their Enhance projects. While by no means revolutionary, the core concept was to make a configurable, standards based, single file component available to users, which would simplify the implementation of responsive images in addition to eliminating the need to generate arbitrary image variants by hand. I (and my colleagues at Begin) went through multiple iterations and proposals for this project, weighing everything from the pros, cons, and most compelling use cases of the Image and Picture elements, to different component signatures, options, and patterns for configuration.

It’s 2024, and you are about to start a new project. Do you reach for React, a framework you know and love or do you look at one of the other hot new frameworks like Astro, Enhance, 11ty, SvelteKit or gasp, plain vanilla Web Components?

If you disagree with this article, maybe try out Enhance in anger and let us know what you think.

The other file in that example is JS, and interestingly it uses a plain template literal without an `html` tag or anything to help with language tools and syntax highlighting

https://github.com/enhance-dev/enhance-starter-project/blob/...

Similarly to Promises/A+, this effort focuses on aligning the JavaScript ecosystem. If this alignment is successful, then a standard could emerge, based on that experience. Several framework authors are collaborating here on a common model which could back their reactivity core. The current draft is based on design input from the authors/maintainers of Angular, Bubble, Ember, FAST, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Starbeam, Svelte, Vue, Wiz, and more…

If you are generally interested in how to write components that can be used by many frontend libraries (react/vue, etc), you should take a look at https://github.com/microsoft/fast. I was tangentially involved with porting an existing component library to it and the end result was pretty framework agnostic and well made.

Could not have articulated it better, especially when compared to other MS project sites like https://www.fast.design/. Maybe the dev or someone on the team downvoted me :/

I know FAST is not used that much but I wanted to cover it as it seems to be the only library that reflects attributes by default. By default it won't do any type coercion unless you use the mode: "boolean", which works almost like an HTML boolean attribute, except an attribute present but with the value "false" will coerce to a property value of false!

This doesn't mean you are required to write vanilla JavaScript web components either. If you are familiar with using Fast or Lit to write web components you can include those libraries in you Enhance application. However, with the introduction of Enhance base classes for the light and shadow DOM you can get the same DX improvements where you write less boilerplate web component code while enabling the sharing of a render method between the SSR and CSR rendering.

You could take a look at FAST https://www.fast.design/. I know it is not what you asked but ...

FastUI from Microsoft? https://github.com/microsoft/fast

I want to use Fast Components, so I've added the Microsoft.Fast.Components.FluentUI NuGet package and added the relevant CDN script tag to index.html.

fast- (Fast components from Microsoft8)