Laminar Alternatives

Laminar reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024

  My quite niche open source project broke this threshold last year, via Github sponsorships. Of course, I put a lot of time into it, so it's not "passive income" or even "market rate income", but still, without these sponsorships I wouldn't be able to work on it so much.

  The project is Laminar, a UI library for Scala.js https://laminar.dev

• The golden age of Kotlin and its uncertain future
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2024
• Why would users avoid a library that makes heavy use of macros in Scala 3?
  1 project | /r/scala | 5 Dec 2023

  I've noticed that Laminar and the newly released Kyo point that they don't use a lot of macros as a feature. Laminar says "Easy to understand: no macros", while Kyo emphasizes "Note: defer is currently the only macro in Kyo. All other features use regular language constructs." It seems that using less macros is something library users will like.

• Is there any book or course about Scala front-end development?
  1 project | /r/scala | 10 Oct 2023

  https://laminar.dev/ might be what you need. Though I wish there was a more beginner friendly (I'm not from front-end world) tutorial for me to follow along.

• Designing an HTML Component system
  3 projects | /r/scala | 11 May 2023

  Have you looked at Laminar and Tyrian? Especially Tyrian seems to be close to what you're looking for.

• The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework
  4 projects | /r/programming | 22 Apr 2023

  For Scala there is Laminar, which has an even flashier website with nice docs. I haven't tested it out though, as I have never used Scala.

• Solid like scala library that has more powerful reactive primitives and lean syntax?
  1 project | /r/solidjs | 18 Mar 2023

  I found this scala library called Laminar which looks super similar to solid. They use signals and has no virtual dom. State changes are represented by signals and events by event streams. Thus they seems to have feature parity with RXJS as they can model all sorts of async stuff. Best part is they get to keep writing their markup in C-style syntax than XML based JSX. It looks super elegant,minimalist and has type safety.

• Solid JS compared to svelte?
  2 projects | /r/solidjs | 17 Mar 2023

  This is very true. I really hate svelte single file components. But then I tried JSX for breaking things down. I love solid but I don't feel really good about angle brackets within C style syntax. I saw this Scala library that stick with simple statically typed function syntax than html tags. I don't understand why people still wants to stick with xml like tags. In laminar markup is written like this scala div( h1("Hello world", color := "red"), inputCaption, input(inputMods, name := "fullName"), div( ">>", button("Submit"), "<<" ) ) I wish solid team makes their HyperScript syntax as performant as JSX.

• Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2023

  Laminar (Scala framework) hasn't been mentioned yet so dropping it here as an awesome framework that support HTML-over-the-wire. It can be used together with React, HTMX, and many other frontend frameworks -- but doesn't have to be.

  https://laminar.dev/

• 10 Years of Scala.js
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2023

  Scala.js core itself, which I maintain, does not need much innovation. We support all of Scala, and interact with any JavaScript library. That's what the core promises.

  If you want to compare to Scala 3, it's worth pointing out that you can use Scala.js with any Scala version >= 2.12.2. In particular, you can use it with Scala 3 and benefit from all its innovations. ;)

  Innovation comes mainly from libraries, notably UI libraries. Laminar (https://laminar.dev/) is a great example.

  In terms of roadmap, we are mostly working on "boring" stuff: improving performance (of the generated code, and of the linker), fixing bugs when they get reported, etc.

  Perhaps, when Wasm gets more features for deeper interoperability with JavaScript (manipulating objects notably), we will take another look at targeting Wasm. People usually expect all languages to target Wasm now, "because it's fast". Truth is, it's fast for languages with linear memory. There is no evidence yet that it will be fast for memory-managed languages with objects and virtual dispatch.

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