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Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs

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Re: Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs

#14
post #9

Respect for building something on your own. It's just that I don't know if what the world needs is another javascript framework.

Critical mass has to be coming soon with JS churn, right?

Thing is, that's the equivalent to saying "Critical mass _has_ to be coming soon with graphics rendering" - what exactly do we expect from critical mass, something like Xcode for iOS?

The Browser is a multitude of runtime UI/network environments with rapidly increasing capabilities. The "frameworks" are basically different abstractions of their capabilities. They are easy to make, and match whatever abstraction the writer's prefer.

I personally dislike React, so am glad it's not "the one" and glad that their are options.

Re: Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs

#15
post #13

This is the second time trueadm posted this. Not sure what you're trying to prove? Mind answering this?

Trying to prove that you can get on the top of Hacker News with yet another flavor du jour JavaScript framework, even if it takes two tries?

Re: Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs

#16
post #8

What is this solving?

It's solving performance issues that React and other virtual DOM libraries currently suffer. This is massively important for low power mobile devices. It's not an ego driven project, all research is going back into the open-source community to make better libraries and implementations inclusion React.

Re: Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs

#18

Someone's ego

If you have nothing to say then don't.

@original question. Did you read the github? It is clearly stated what the intentions are. Mainly performance related achieved through being able to only diff renders that have dynamic values. So if you are having trouble with performance and are pretty sure it's not your code but the framework, inferno might solve it.

Re: Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs

#19
post #7

It's still in progress but it gets better on each release. Even better that the new version is using TypeScript!

TypeScript not only helped improve Inferno's with quality and read-ability of code. It can potentially help produce highly optimal output (bundles) with Google's Closure Compiler. In the future it may even help created optimised WebAssembly output. It's an exciting time :)
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