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Re: FicusJS

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Post by Sn0wCoder »

Hi All, I use Angular 6 – 10 at work every day @day$job and have used Vue.js for some side projects / school related. Long story short have been looking into standard web components for my next side project and FicusJS seems to check all the boxes. Problem is there is almost no information about FicusJS other than what I can find linked off https://webcomponents.dev/new/ The other ones in the running are GitHub/Catalyst, AppRun, CanJS or compiler Riot, Stencil, ect… I think I want to stay away from build tools until I can’t Does anyone have any experience with FicusJS? Seems FicusJS uses lit-html in all the examples so maybe start there? Good or bad would love to hear your story. Cheers!

Re: FicusJS

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Post by colordrops »

How is performance compared to something like LitElement, which does bare minimum DOM updates in place? Also, does this have any functionality to support data binding? Passing values down a hierarchy of components and injecting them into the DOM is half the battle with web components.

Re: FicusJS

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Post by edoceo »

Sn0wCoder wrote: post #2

Hi All, I use Angular 6 – 10 at work every day @day$job and have used Vue.js for some side projects / school related. Long story short have been looking into standard web components for my next side project and FicusJS seems to check all the boxes. Problem is there is almost no information about FicusJS other than what I can find linked off https://webcomponents.dev/new/ The other ones in the running are GitHub/Catal…

No experience with Ficus but others. I'd been trying to avoid that ceremony tooling/build step too. But, modern JS I've realized that's wasted effort. Embrace the suck.

Re: FicusJS

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Post by eat_veggies »

Initial impressions:

Looks like a relatively new project -- only 59 commits, all by one person, starting from last September. And based on a GitHub search for "ficusjs," it seems that no other projects mention it.

It's only a bit over a thousand lines of code, and based on a cursory glance, the code is in pretty good shape. It should be able to fit entirely in your head, and for a lightweight framework, that's a good thing.

The API itself reminds me of the good old React.createClass({ ... }) days and I wouldn't be opposed to using it. Overall it looks promising for building an MVP, and shouldn't be horribly difficult to transition to a more complicated framework when needed :)

Re: FicusJS

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Post by colordrops »

Sn0wCoder wrote: post #2

Hi All, I use Angular 6 – 10 at work every day @day$job and have used Vue.js for some side projects / school related. Long story short have been looking into standard web components for my next side project and FicusJS seems to check all the boxes. Problem is there is almost no information about FicusJS other than what I can find linked off https://webcomponents.dev/new/ The other ones in the running are GitHub/Catal…

The x-element library published by Netflix [1] takes the best features of other web components libraries like Polymer and LitElement, and focuses on a standards based approach, e.g. es6 module loading at runtime, which is done intentionally to avoid a build step.

https://github.com/Netflix/x-element

Re: FicusJS

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Post by Fractal_HQ »

Sn0wCoder wrote: post #2

Hi All, I use Angular 6 – 10 at work every day @day$job and have used Vue.js for some side projects / school related. Long story short have been looking into standard web components for my next side project and FicusJS seems to check all the boxes. Problem is there is almost no information about FicusJS other than what I can find linked off https://webcomponents.dev/new/ The other ones in the running are GitHub/Catal…

You can make vanilla web components with Svelte, and Svelte has a much better DX than React, Vue, and Angular. It also performs better thanks to the compile step. I highly recommend checking it out!

Re: FicusJS

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Post by eyelidlessness »

Fractal_HQ wrote: post #7
Sn0wCoder wrote: post #2

Hi All, I use Angular 6 – 10 at work every day @day$job and have used Vue.js for some side projects / school related. Long story short have been looking into standard web components for my next side project and FicusJS seems to check all the boxes. Problem is there is almost no information about FicusJS other than what I can find linked off https://webcomponents.dev/new/ The other ones in the running are GitHub/Catal…

You can make vanilla web components with Svelte, and Svelte has a much better DX than React, Vue, and Angular. It also performs better thanks to the compile step. I highly recommend checking it out!

I think the DX claim is pretty subjective. I find JSX much easier to use than all the others mentioned, and a great deal more flexible. The ease of use being that it’s just JavaScript (or more importantly TypeScript), with some DSL. That means it follows all the other rules of the environment in which it runs, and uses all the same tooling. It also produces a data structure that’s renderer-agnostic, so it’s trivial to adapt to different platforms and build targets.

Re: FicusJS

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Post by shuringai »

eat_veggies wrote: post #5

Initial impressions: Looks like a relatively new project -- only 59 commits, all by one person, starting from last September. And based on a GitHub search for "ficusjs," it seems that no other projects mention it. It's only a bit over a thousand lines of code, and based on a cursory glance, the code is in pretty good shape. It should be able to fit entirely in your head, and for a lightweight framework, that's a good…

and what is the problem with that? "Single guy made a good looking and so far working product in only 59 commits since september" is a different way to present the same facts.
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