scalajs-react VS tyrian

Then there's scalajs-react, which can be integrated with existing React ecosystem, but it's just sooo compex: macros, 5-6 type parameters, hundreds and hundreds of cryptic types. We decided to stick with TypeScript instead.

Or the OG React Scala.js library: https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react

Japgolly has put a ton of time and care into https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react which is a complete React binding in scalajs. This paired with something like Diode (https://github.com/suzaku-io/diode) and you get a full frontend solution in scalajs.

We've got server-side rendering with scalajs-react and scala-graal. Here's a tutorial if anyone's interested. What's really cool about scala-graal is that it has some pretty cool caching so that even with dynamic inputs, you can render pages in nanoseconds (as opposed to 10+ or even 100+ ms).

You can use React with Scala.js, and also most other common JS libraries. Or you can use a Scala.js specific library like Laminar, which I haven't tried myself but it looks nice.

I don't have a lot of experience with it, but many seem to be very pleased with it. Interop with JS is good and you can use React and other common JS libraries, but there is also Scala.js specific frameworks like Laminar.

https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react is pretty heavily used as well, and fairly active as a project. In short, building it off of that wouldn't be a huge risk over typescript, and might even be a net win in the long run, as you could re-use some stuff from the backend in the front-end.

If you want to try TEA, but not Elm I reccomend Scala.js with Tyrian[1]. Scala.js is a wonderful, mature project and Tyrian gives you the elm architecture in a very pragmatic way.

[1]: https://tyrian.indigoengine.io/

Have you looked at Laminar and Tyrian? Especially Tyrian seems to be close to what you're looking for.

What I wrote is obviously based on my experience as backend and data engineer. I'm so happy to see an adoption on the Frontend side (with things like Tyrian or OutWatch) and would be even happier if there was a clean path to Android. Out of curiosity, what do you find appealing in Scala, compared to e.g. Kotlin?

Documentation can be found at https://indigoengine.io/ and https://tyrian.indigoengine.io/.

Yes, I have. It didn't work out. There are quite neat libs like Tyrian, but they lack any ecosystem and I struggled to integrate it with pure JS libs - yet our app has a lot of very common components/widgets that we're really hesitating to write ourselves.