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Introducing the Famous Framework

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Re: Introducing the Famous Framework

#13
post #7

For a UI framework, show me a pretty demo with some example snippet code next to it and I will read on. Otherwise, I'm not motivated -- this is not the way you want people to read about your UI framework.

This. I can't find a single example of an actual UI you'd build with famo.us on their entire site. How am I supposed to know what makes the framework worth learning if I don't see examples of what it makes possible?

http://famous.org at least shows some code samples, but I agree - it'd be nice to see a real interface, as opposed to an animation.

It would also be great to see how Famous isn't a re-skin of MVC with a React-flavored API.

Re: Introducing the Famous Framework

#14
The core of famous is really an request animation frame loop that does css transitions to do animations with physics. Their demos uses absolute positioning on everything to get flickerfree animations. On top of that they've created various abstractions like angular directives and react components. It's very cool, but for simple animations in react or angular I turn to snabbt.js.

There are some open source projects that adds turn key components to famous, like famous-flex https://github.com/IjzerenHein/famous-flex by Hein Rutjes. If you want demo's, then there's the famous "fan site" http://famousco.de/links/

Re: Introducing the Famous Framework

#17
post #7

For a UI framework, show me a pretty demo with some example snippet code next to it and I will read on. Otherwise, I'm not motivated -- this is not the way you want people to read about your UI framework.

Agreed. Right at the bottom of the post they link to samples in their Github repo[1] if you're still looking to find what what's going on.

[1]: https://github.com/Famous/framework/tree/develop/lib/core-co...

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