I think this, along with its sibling Turbolinks [1], is filling a much needed gap with regards to complexity in these javascript frameworks. Myself, I've been playing with intercoolerjs [2] for a few weeks, and it is quite refreshing. These are great libraries for small full-stack teams who do not want to get lost in the complexity of front-end stuff like react, webpack, etc. [1] - https://github.com/turbolinks/turbo…
Frontend stuff doesn't have to be complex. The idea behind React is very simple and it's really something every front end dev should know. You need to understand the why of DOM diffing. It is not complicated. If a frontend dev doesn't want to learn that then they will be out of a job in a decade. It transfers, too. React, Vue, Elm, Reagent, etc, they are all doing this, because it is good, and none of them in isolati…
Re: Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
#111React isn't complex, but pretending JS supports immutable structures makes it hard to use. I have some pretty deeply nested json structs and it looks like a i have to flatten them out to use react. I suppose mobx might be a better way to handle this.