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If all you need is HTML rendering and basic state, any modern web framework will do that extremely simply. The barrier to entry is really not that high!*
*Except maybe at Google. I hear their internal tooling is a huge pain to work with.
If I was making this kind of mini framework instead of this a({href: "https://vanjs.org/"}, "VanJS") I would have gone with this shorter way a("VanJS").href("https://vanjs.org/") And make it chainable and allow class names as second argument as in a("About us", ".big.red").href("/about.html").target("_blank")
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Suggestion: call it Bourbon JS. Wikipedia: > The majority of the world's vanilla is the V. planifolia species, more commonly known as Bourbon vanilla.
Already taken. I know it's not JS but it's front end tooling. https://www.bourbon.io/
I really don't want to be that guy, but... Vanilla JavaScript already exists as a popular term for JavaScript without any framework. No jQuery, no React - just JavaScript. Calling a library VanJS (as short for "Vanilla JavaScript") is just going to cause confusion. The repo's own description uses the phrase vanilla JavaScript in this way, and even mixes both meanings within a single sentence. If the author likes the…
Yes, please be that guy. Or I'll do it. Vanilla Javascript refers indeed to "javascript without a framework". So creating a framework and calling it "vanilla javascript" is... wrong?
Why is everybody so obsessed with size? 100kB means nothing these days.
It’s because of your thinking that we got bloated webpages.
If I was making this kind of mini framework instead of this a({href: "https://vanjs.org/"}, "VanJS") I would have gone with this shorter way a("VanJS").href("https://vanjs.org/") And make it chainable and allow class names as second argument as in a("About us", ".big.red").href("/about.html").target("_blank")
Maybe for projects that don't aim to replicate desktop app functionality there is a "small-is-beautiful" yet all-inclusive js library that is missing.
If I was making this kind of mini framework instead of this a({href: "https://vanjs.org/"}, "VanJS") I would have gone with this shorter way a("VanJS").href("https://vanjs.org/") And make it chainable and allow class names as second argument as in a("About us", ".big.red").href("/about.html").target("_blank")
Chaining is very... 2010? Mainly because it's used().to().make().awful().APIs().like().this(). It got popular then seems to have died out. href() isn't a function name. One doesn't 'href()' anything.