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8,570 | 3,536 | |
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4 months ago | about 9 hours ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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htm
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VanJS: A 0.9KB JavaScript UI framework
The preact team also dislikes transpiling jsx so they've developed an alternative using tagged template literals: https://github.com/developit/htm
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React SSR web-server from scratch
So getting this to work without bundler magic is very hard. It's not surprising why NextJS is investing in a bundler. Though one thing that really sticks out is how much complexity we add for just miniscule dev ergonomics. Not using JSX and using something like htm would make all this easier (removing the bundler entirely), it's a lot of overhead to avoid a couple of quotes. React should really have a tagged-template mode. Also all of this is indirection is actually bad for dev ergonomics too! One of the reasons I did this is because I'm absolutely sick of magic caches and sorting through code that's been crushed by a bundler into something I don't recognize and can't easily debug. While we can't get rid of this completely (ts/jsx) this preserves the module import graph completely on the client-side making it easy to find things as you are working and preserving line numbers. This obviously is not useful for a production build and there's a lot of work that would need to go in to support both modes over the same code, but it's depressing no tools really work like this for local development.
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HTML Web Components
You can also do JSX and skip the build step with preact + htm : https://github.com/developit/htm#example
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Service Worker Templating Language (SWTL)
While I was able to achieve this fairly easily, the developer experience of manually stitching strings together wasnt great. Being myself a fan of buildless libraries, such as htm and lit-html, I figured I'd try to take a stab at implementing a DSL for component-like templating in Service Workers myself, called Service Worker Templating Language (SWTL), here's what it looks like:
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Gaseous - Yet Another Games Manager
I would however highly recommend https://github.com/developit/htm
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Create and Hydrate HTML with HTM
I thought the same thing, but apparently "HTM" is a JSX like javascript string template representation of HTML, and it can be found here: https://github.com/developit/htm
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Anyone using React from just a CDN, barbarian style?
If you're going to do a no-build approach, assume modern JS (so you don't have to transpile the JS syntax). Also, you can use https://github.com/developit/htm as a nearly-identical equivalent to JSX syntax, also without transpiling.
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Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps
This seems like a case of caring way too much about something that's hardly very different. JSX versus tagged template strings can be incredibly similar to one another.
The examples in this article are using vanilla template strings to author raw html, but that only misses a couple of nicities JSX has. There are tagged template string libraries like htm[1] that do include some of the few nicities JSX has, but which are actually compatible with the official language.
[1] https://github.com/developit/htm
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A few programming language features Iād like to see
The first one exists in JavaScript and is called Tagged Template Literals. I agree with the author that its a nice feature. It's the perfect construct to use for prepared SQL statements, LINQ-style queries, or reimplementing a JSX-like syntax (see HTM https://github.com/developit/htm).
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Using React without JSX == no build
There is however a library that is closer to JSX (HTML-like feel) but yet does not require a build step. htm. HTM uses tagged templates to leverage template literal as native Javascript template strings. If you have not played with tagged templates, I encourage you to check this out, it's a quite powerful feature, that has recently become a part of Javascript.
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Pocketbase: Open-source back end in 1 file
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/
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VanJS: A 0.9KB JavaScript UI framework
The library does have Typescript definitions available to use.
https://github.com/vanjs-org/van#typescript-support
- VanJS App Builder: A GPT That Builds Web Apps with VanJS
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Want to help with Cardboard? JS/TS Vanilla Reactive Framework
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.
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An Improved Unix Terminal ā Demo App for VanJS
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.
- VanJS: A 0.9kB Grab 'n Go Reactive UI Framework without React/JSX
- VanJS - World's smallest reactive UI framework, enabling you to build UI app within an hour, no tool required
- Vanjs
- VanJS (abbreviated Vanilla JavaSript, smallest reactive framework) 1.0.0 is here
- ArrowJs: Reactivity Without the Framework
What are some alternatives?
jsx - The JSX specification is a XML-like syntax extension to ECMAScript.
nano - šÆ SSR first, lightweight 1kB JSX library.
Preact - āļø Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.
hyperapp - 1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications
esbuild-plugin-alias - esbuild plugin for path aliases
Mithril.js - A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications
babel-plugin-react-html-attrs - Babel plugin which transforms HTML and SVG attributes on JSX host elements into React-compatible attributes
pakertaja - JavaScript library for building HTML.
vim-jsx-pretty - :flashlight: [Vim script] JSX and TSX syntax pretty highlighting for vim.
el - Minimal JavaScript application framework / WebComponents base class
lit - Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.
tinyjs