Espresso.js – minimal React alternative – is now a decade old

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  • hyperapp

    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications

  • The likely reason it never caught on, is that it has similar pitfalls as Backbone:

    - manually attaching DOM elements to view controllers

    - manually attaching child views

    - models which have to be wired individually via .listenTo

    - possibility of infinite loops if the events accidentally recurse

    A better tiny alternative would be hyperapp[1] or even Preact, that has a similar bundle size.

    [1] https://github.com/jorgebucaran/hyperapp

  • webfui

    Client-Side Web Framework for ClojureScript

  • Another ‘React before React’ is webfui from ClojureScript world: https://github.com/drcode/webfui

    When React was first released, general JS public was skeptical towards it, but ClojureScript community immediately embraced it. One of the early articles praising React for it’s performance was written by David Nolen: https://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javas...

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • derw

    An Elm-inspired language that transpiles to TypeScript

  • Imba seems great, but coming from Elm/Typescript, hard for me to imagine relying on it for medium-to-large projects. I'm keeping a close eye on Derw.

    https://github.com/eeue56/derw

  • espresso.js

    Super minimal MVC library

  • You-Dont-Need-jQuery

    Examples of how to do query, style, dom, ajax, event etc like jQuery with plain javascript.

  • In the past I recommended people to look at https://github.com/camsong/You-Dont-Need-jQuery. I haven't looked at it in a while but it looks up to date.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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