vanillaview
sciter-js-sdk
vanillaview | sciter-js-sdk | |
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0.0 | 9.3 | |
about 2 years ago | about 2 years ago | |
JavaScript | Pawn | |
MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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vanillaview
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Show HN: Bang
Hello Humans of HN,
This is BANG! a new UI framework for JavaScript on the web. It comes out of work I did in 2014 (on a web component framework with v0 Shadow DOM) and in 2018 (on a pure view-as-a-function of state framework with JavaScript template tag functions, variously known as brutal.js, dumbass and now vanillaview or just VV).
This work unifies those two works, and combines the JavaScript templating and minimal DOM updates (diffs without VDOM, by using granular updating functions down even to the level of splicing text nodes and text in attribute values and names) of VV with the scoped-styles, and component organization of the original unnamed web component framework.
It also adds a few new things, such as fixing some bugs in VV that I didn't even know existed before I tried merging it with another framework, making the list-diffing capability of VV truly minimal (previously it would reprint the whole list if any item order changed, not only items inserted or deleted actually are), and adding support for something I'm very proud of..."custom self-closing tags."
You can't get self-closing custom tags in HTML, because you can't define them. HTML has a limited set (, ,
and the like), but their syntax has always been neat. And React picked up on this as a way to include a component in another. I really liked that syntax. In VV I simply used template slots and function calls to the included view function to include components, it worked. But I always wanted a neater syntax. I experimented with a parser at the time, and that worked, too. But the performance was slow, and I thought it made the code clunky.One day I had the realization I could use HTML comment nodes. They look, "kinda" like elements, and you can write them by omitting everything but the leading ``. This was what I needed. Hence "bang" (at least I think that's where the name comes from, I'm not even sure). So these "bang tags" are self-closing tags, that are automatically converted to regular custom elements. Allowing you to type less.
I build things to improve my developer experience. That's all important. Then you're more efficient, and effective and you enjoy doing it more. So I'm sharing it here because I want to contribute to you, too. Maybe it's something valuable for you, or maybe it gives you ideas. Either way, this framework is yours. It's an open-source permissive license, and yours to contribute to, or fork or whatever.
It's got bugs right now and the syntax is more limited than VV, but I like it better. I wanted something new, and I got it. By making this. I can always add the VV syntax I removed for performance and simplicity during the merge, back later. But I'm not sure if I will, not yet. If you want something more battle-tested take a look at VV[0], but note that some of the fixes I made to the merged-VV have not been included back in main. I'm sure I'm going to do that eventually, but not for a while yet probably. I'm too busy basking in the bliss that is BANG!. Hopefully it's your bliss too :P ;) xx
[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/vanillaview
- Show HN: Vanillaview – Easy to Use Views in JavaScript
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Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web
Wow you are clearly a genius. The syntax looks beautiful! This is great. I don't want to use it (the best tool for the job for me is one that fits my own mental models, my own mind, and this is not it) but you are a genius.
Also -- wow those Nordics are super productive programmers/coders/developers/open-sorcerers (Sindre Aarsaether & Sindre Sorhus & Linus Torvalds & ......) -- could it maybe have something to do with: The low GNI, the high HDI and the great weather for coding? (cold, blistery, bleak, focused, electrons-and-light universe is only outlet in a desolate landscape)?
PS - I use my own memoized DOM with minimal/granular updates in my own quirky framework (https://github.com/i5ik/vanillaview)
CONGRATULATIONS, SIR!
- VanillaView is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- i5ik/vanillaview VanillaView is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
- Show HN: VanillaView – easy to use views with vanilla JavaScript semantics
sciter-js-sdk
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GameScripter.JS — write games in JS, compile to tiny executable
How tiny is the output? What is the API? (I couldn't find any documentation. I thought maybe it's in the Help menu in the app itself but all I found was this https://i.imgur.com/6puOMIe.png - On that note, what level of JS is supported? As far as I can tell it uses this https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk which is based on Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS ) Is there sound?
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What technologies to use for a desktop app
JavaScript & Electron Sciter!
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Ultralight VS sciter-js-sdk - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 4 Apr 2022
- Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?
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Zig Build System Internals
Having normal procedural language for build automation is of course useful. That's for those 10% of cases when "standard" build DSL (make,CMake,etc.) simply do not have facilities.
But the rest of 90% tasks should have compact (easily readable) definitions.
I personally found that Premake5 has quite good balance for these tasks.
Premake files are plain .lua files and due to Lua syntax they are easily readable. And if needed you can call from them procedures defined in again Lua.
So typical project (multiplatform) definition looks pretty readable, for example one project from Sciter SDK:
https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/blob/main/premake5....
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Alternatives for realtime offline-first JavaScript applications
More details.
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App Localization in Flutter
That's why in Sciter I've extended JSX with translation meta instruction @:
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Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
Note Tauri is full fledged Client/Server with WebView (client) is running in separate process with RPC between UI process and Rust code (Server).
For the comparison:
Standalone Sciter (scapp.exe, https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/bin) takes ~8 MB of RAM (with minimal Cairo and GDI backends).
That's 20 times less than even Tauri.
WebView based solutions are not suitable for applets - small portable desktop applications.
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Dioxus v0.1 - a new Rust GUI toolkit for Web, Desktop, Mobile, SSR, TUI that emphasizes developer experience [WebView-based rendering]
scapp.exe ( Standalone sciter engine ) takes 45 Mb showing its default "about" document.
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
It does support , with limited support but still.
See: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/samples/c...
Sciter also supports immediate mode painting on any element (like in DearIMGUI):
element.paintBackground = function(gfx) {
What are some alternatives?
pFreak - pFreak is a unit-level 2-in-1 JavaScript benchmarking and testing framework.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
_____ - 💎 Das Bang-Architektur-Rahmenwerk! ist eine Ansichtsbibliothek, die benutzerdefinierte Elemente für das neue Zeitalter druckt. Es enthält asynchrone Vorlagenwerte, JS-Vorlagensyntax, <!void-elements /> und minimale DOM-Aktualisierungen ohne virtuelles DOM. [Moved to: https://github.com/i5ik/das.bang.froomwerk]
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
kotlinx.html - Kotlin DSL for HTML
vue-native-core - Vue Native is a framework to build cross platform native mobile apps using JavaScript
coffeesense - IntelliSense for CoffeeScript. LSP implementation / VSCode extension
react-native-web - Cross-platform React UI packages
typescript-imba-plugin - Typescript Plugin for providing rich language functionality for Imba
svelte-nodegui - Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with native Svelte + powerful CSS-like styling.🚀
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
leaflet-geoman - 🍂🗺️ The most powerful leaflet plugin for drawing and editing geometry layers