solid-site VS knockout

SolidJS is a popular and open-source declarative JavaScript library that empowers reactive UI interfaces for the web that ensures a performant benchmark, leverages the flexibility of JSX and also provides support for TypeScript, Astro, and Vite.

In 2023 there are a wealth of developer options for front-end: React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and many more.

You may or may not yet have heard about Solid Start, which is the much anticipated upcoming meta framework for Solid.js currently being in beta.

SolidJS is a powerful, pragmatic and productive JavaScript library for building user interfaces with simple and performant reactivity. It stands on the shoulders of giants, particularly React and Knockout. If you've developed with React Functional Components and Hooks before, Solid will feel very natural because it follows the same philosophy as React, with unidirectional data flow, read/write segregation, and immutable interfaces.

Things like Solid (https://www.solidjs.com/) also have no virtual DOM, and the improves are in higher ceiling for performance, lower memory usage, simpler DX (components are not re-executed, there aren't any dependency arrays everywhere), easy high performance (no useRef this and useRef that to make things fast, no useCallback, no React.memo, these things are just obsolete).

Made with: - Windblade (my own version of Tailwind) - Solid JS - Vite

SolidJS

For the time being, this is how I approach web development on pretty much every project I have “architectural control” over. That’s how I worked with Solid.js and Tailwind CSS for the past 2 years. That’s how Vrite is being built. Has worked pretty well so far…

SolidJS (They've started building the SolidStart and I want to give it a try)

The approach is not new, essentially a variation of Knockout, Alpine, and similar "JS-in-HTML" approaches.

SolidJS and Tauri form another potent combination for creating performant, lightweight, and secure experiences. SolidJS is a reactive UI library that is similar to Svelte in the way it compiles away reactivity and updates the DOM directly, but it also incorporates a fine-grained reactivity system reminiscent of libraries like Marko, Knockout, and MobX.

People act like Signals are a new discovery. KnockoutJS was using them 13 years ago and other libraries used them before that.

Knockout JS is a Javascript library which uses the MVVM pattern to bind data to certain DOM elements. Within Magento, we usually define a View-Model (which is a .js file) and a Template (which is a .html file), and the data in the template file is bound to the view-model, meaning whenever the data in the view-model changes, the template file changes too.

I still use Knockout[0] for almost an identical experience.

0: https://knockoutjs.com/

One of the first uses of this concept was in knockout, which used the same function with and without arguments for write/read access.

To do this, use a Javascript library called knockout.js

You could use a JavaScript framework called KnockoutJS which uses the MVVM pattern.

Magento is built with PHP. A good understanding of PHP is generally enough to perform different development tasks such as building modules. However, developers often need to work with libraries like Knockout.js and Less when developing themes.