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uhtml
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Svelte frontend vs HTMX and hyperscript
I have to say that I am an extremist minimalist, so I use a nano-framework I developed for the frontend, with uhtml (https://github.com/WebReflection/uhtml) and some JavaScript libraries to help.
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Xeito - A framework for building web applications
One of the main decisions I had to make early on was template handling, there are many approaches out there and of course, with React being the king, I first tried implementing a VirtualDOM complete with JSX support and whatnot... well that didn't really worked for what I was trying to achieve, so I moved into Tagged Template Literals (through µhtml) and tried to stick to standards as much as possible by building on top of the Custom Elements API.
- Anyone have multiple language syntax highlighting with treesitter working?
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Ardi: Welcome to the Weightless Web
Challenge: With declarative rendering, oftentimes entire DOM trees are re-painted because of simple prop or state changes that could have been handled faster by imperative DOM manipulation. I wanted a framework that, like Lit, only updated content or attributes that had changed instead of re-painting entire DOM elements and trees. Solution: I chose µhtml for the default templating system because it accomplishes this goal and other advanced templating features in a tiny bundle size. To make rendering even faster and smoother, I throttled uhtml's rendering using requestAnimationFrame.
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Ask HN: What happened to vanilla HTML/CSS/JS development?
> There are lighter-weight shadow dom frameworks out there (than Vue/React/Angular) so why would you want to write one yourself?
You can even avoid a shadow DOM entirely:
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I don't miss React: a story about using the platform
My next goal would be to discard snabbdom (and virtualdom) and use custom elements. For that I'm evaluating a library like https://github.com/WebReflection/uhtml and all it's ecosystem of utility
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Hooks Considered Harmful
A tiny dom lib like https://github.com/WebReflection/uhtml is more than enough for very complicated UI, with understanding how events work, will be able to implement very thin state management on top. With game programming styled manual render() call here and there as needed, pretty neat.
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A Look at Compilation in JavaScript Frameworks
Svelte separates its code between create and update lifecycles. Solid takes that one step further hoisting the DOM creation into clone-able Template elements that create whole portions of the DOM in a single call, incidentally a runtime technique used by Tagged Template Literal libraries like @webreflection 's uhtml and Lit.
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Show HN: I Built A
I do not see this happens with https://github.com/WebReflection/uhtml/blob/master/DOCUMENTA... family. They are around for quite awhile, and their philosophy is clear from start, do one thing well, small and no tooling.
barleytea
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Show HN: I Built A
Shoutout to Barleytea which was posted a few months ago, which is also an alternative that comes in at 3.1kB MAX (if you opt-in all the features) AND, more importantly, comes with a great design document / explainer / framework builder.
I have no affiliation, just happened to notice it and really really like its philosophy, framework builder, readable code, and documentation.
I hope Andrew sees this comment so he can chime in.
What are some alternatives?
lit - Lit is a simple library for building fast, lightweight web components.
solid - A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.
developer.chrome.com - The frontend, backend, and content source code for developer.chrome.com
prehistoric-simulation - Simulator in browser
inferno - :fire: An extremely fast, React-like JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces
modern-todomvc-vanillajs - TodoMVC with Modern (ES6+), Vanilla JavaScript
Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps
joystick - A full-stack JavaScript framework for building stable, easy-to-maintain apps and websites.
eureka - Lucene-based search engine for your source code
notemplate - NoTemplate is not a template library.
xeito - 🤞 Xeito is a framework for building interactive web applications with Typescript and Tagged Template Literals.