VanJS: A 0.9KB JavaScript UI framework

1. van

   1 36 4,081 9.0 JavaScript

   🍦 VanJS: World's smallest reactive UI framework. Incredibly Powerful, Insanely Small - Everyone can build a useful UI app in an hour.

   

   > How can something feel sugar-ish if it's actually more verbose than ordinary JS code?

   I personally find XML much easier to parse than a lot of nested callbacks and I especially like that content is always inside tags, rather than another argument as part of the library's functions. p("Hello, world") is readable enough, but as soon as you start adding html attributes, it becomes less legible to me:

   li(a({href: "https://vanjs.org/"}, "VanJS"))

   vs.

   VanJS

   " rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://vanjs.org/">VanJS

   I'm certain some people probably prefer the former over the latter, but I much prefer how JSX/XML reads. I can immediately tell where the content starts and in formatted code, I think it's a lot easier to see visually where things start and end, because of closing tags, instead of just a parentheses.

2. SurveyJS

   surveyjs.io featured

   JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

   

3. relementjs

   2 2 1 9.4 TypeScript

   reactive elements...browser & server rendering...tiny, fast, scales large, scales small

   

   One huge benefit to VanJS is it's simplicity. It's easy to fork. I did it writing relementjs. I encourage others to fork it as well. VanJS is well written. You get a state management library (on the browser side) & a UI renderer in < 150 LoC. Very impressive. I encourage anyone interested to experiment with this. It has been very fruitful for me.

   In case anyone is interested, here are my forks.

   https://github.com/relementjs/relementjs

   https://github.com/rmemo/rmemo, which exports https://github.com/ctx-core/ctx-core/tree/main/rmemo

4. ctx-core

   3 2 0 9.4 JavaScript

   ctx-core core (ctx-core^2) libraries...used by @ctx-core/* libraries. The development monorepo has been moved to @ctx-core/dev

   

   One huge benefit to VanJS is it's simplicity. It's easy to fork. I did it writing relementjs. I encourage others to fork it as well. VanJS is well written. You get a state management library (on the browser side) & a UI renderer in < 150 LoC. Very impressive. I encourage anyone interested to experiment with this. It has been very fruitful for me.

   In case anyone is interested, here are my forks.

   https://github.com/relementjs/relementjs

   https://github.com/rmemo/rmemo, which exports https://github.com/ctx-core/ctx-core/tree/main/rmemo

5. htm

   4 44 8,827 0.0 JavaScript

   Hyperscript Tagged Markup: JSX alternative using standard tagged templates, with compiler support.

   

   The preact team also dislikes transpiling jsx so they've developed an alternative using tagged template literals: https://github.com/developit/htm

6. rmemo (Reactive Memo)

   5 2 6 9.3 JavaScript

   Tiny Reactive Memo + Signal library

   

7. rebuildjs

   6 1 2 9.5 TypeScript

   Reactive esbuild...simple hackable alternative to vite for Multi Page Apps

   

8. relysjs

   7 1 1 9.6 TypeScript

   Reactive Web app server focusing on MPAs with a simple server route & browser build api...uses Bunjs, Elysia, ESBuild, rmemo, & ctx-core

   

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

10. rmemo

    8 1 - -

    One huge benefit to VanJS is it's simplicity. It's easy to fork. I did it writing relementjs. I encourage others to fork it as well. VanJS is well written. You get a state management library (on the browser side) & a UI renderer in < 150 LoC. Very impressive. I encourage anyone interested to experiment with this. It has been very fruitful for me.

    In case anyone is interested, here are my forks.

    https://github.com/relementjs/relementjs

    https://github.com/rmemo/rmemo, which exports https://github.com/ctx-core/ctx-core/tree/main/rmemo

11. Mithril.js

    9 57 14,218 8.9 JavaScript

    A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications

    

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