Show HN: CalDOM: An agnostic, reactive and minimalist JavaScript UI library

Post by BiteCode_dev » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 8:55 PM UTC

blacktriangle wrote: post #15

dumindaxsb wrote: post #3

I honestly don’t know where this will lead. Probably all of this is just for nothing. The world has enough UI libraries already. Duh!. I decided to make my own mini jQuery years ago because I wanted a lightweight library. Also, I wanted to stay close to the native DOM API & vanilla JavaScript. Looking back, it paid really well. Then React & Vue JS happened. In my opinion, the reactive UI approach bought a huge produc…

Some library like this is going to blow up in popularity eventually. Virtual DOMs are often unnessary abstractions, Svelt introduces it's own whole compilation step, and libs like Vue, Ember, and Angular are just too big. There is clearly a need for a lightweight (on the order of 3kb seems good) "framework" that embraces everything the modern browser lets you do as natively as possible, basically the new jQuery, or m…

Post by ctvo » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 9:52 PM UTC

c-smile wrote: post #7

For the note: Sciter ( https://sciter.com ) implements CalDOM features out of the box. But better. In Sciter DOM and vDOM are equally honored. This CalDOM's (DOM + vDOM population): _("#output-1") .append( _("+h1").text("Hello World!") ); In Sciter is document.$("#output-1") .append( Hello World! ) And this reactive CalDOM: let app = _().react( {}, { render: state => _( "+h1", `Hello ${state.name}` ) //This is XSS sa…

Post by dzonga » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

Post by difosfor » Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 11:08 PM UTC

Post by paulddraper » Tue, Jul 20, 2021, 1:21 AM UTC

blacktriangle wrote: post #15

dumindaxsb wrote: post #3

I honestly don’t know where this will lead. Probably all of this is just for nothing. The world has enough UI libraries already. Duh!. I decided to make my own mini jQuery years ago because I wanted a lightweight library. Also, I wanted to stay close to the native DOM API & vanilla JavaScript. Looking back, it paid really well. Then React & Vue JS happened. In my opinion, the reactive UI approach bought a huge produc…

Some library like this is going to blow up in popularity eventually. Virtual DOMs are often unnessary abstractions, Svelt introduces it's own whole compilation step, and libs like Vue, Ember, and Angular are just too big. There is clearly a need for a lightweight (on the order of 3kb seems good) "framework" that embraces everything the modern browser lets you do as natively as possible, basically the new jQuery, or m…