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ui component library

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S-expression based, pure ES6 UI/VDOM components

Shown by toxmeister on Sep 23, 2018. Click the card to turn it over.

180points

64comments

#208of 2,155 in 2018

Top 10%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

9 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.

Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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Clean functional composition and no enforced state opinion
From 2 comments
- There is an interesting synergy at play amongst UI as s-exprs, functional programming, and components/vdom where the whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts. I was…
  aaron-santos on HN
- Nice visualizations. I particularly liked https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/feature/estuary/packages/estuary. Where can I find more stuff like this? :)
  tofflos on HN
Smaller, less verbose syntax than HTML or JSX
From 1 comment
- For me personally, smaller file sizes and less verbosity both improve readability.
  jjnoakes on HN

Requires JavaScript; fails to render without it
From 1 comment
- It may be less verbose but it fails completely to render anything if javascript is not enabled (in the browser) on the domain the scripts are to be loaded from. Bad…
  superkuh on HN
Less readable than markup-like syntax such as lit-html
From 1 comment
- I'd still rather write markup in a format that looks like markup. I think this is why JSX is so popular. This is why I prefer something like lit-html with actual markup. Example…
  spankalee on HN
SVG-based demo stutters with many elements
From 1 comment
- FYI the "Mouse gesture analysis" example has performance issues after 300~ samples (e.g. keep drawing big circles continuously) Win10/Chrome/i7 4790k/GTX 970
  jefozabuss on HN

Add a README in the package directory
From 1 comment
- OP, a README in that directory would be useful I found some docs: http://docs.thi.ng/umbrella/hdom/
  tln on HN

What makes it different from Mercury and other pre-React frameworks
From 1 comment
- What makes this different from Mercury (https://github.com/Raynos/mercury) and a ton of other pre-React frameworks?
  ricardobeat on HN
Is the DOM an afterthought or tightly coupled
From 1 comment
- Is the DOM an afterthought here, like in React, or is everything strongly tied to the DOM?
  TheRealPomax on HN

Reagent
From 1 comment
- There is an interesting synergy at play amongst UI as s-exprs, functional programming, and components/vdom where the whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts. I was…
  aaron-santos on HN
Om
From 1 comment
- There is an interesting synergy at play amongst UI as s-exprs, functional programming, and components/vdom where the whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts. I was…
  aaron-santos on HN
lit-html
From 1 comment
- I'd still rather write markup in a format that looks like markup. I think this is why JSX is so popular. This is why I prefer something like lit-html with actual markup. Example…
  spankalee on HN
Mercury
From 1 comment
- What makes this different from Mercury (https://github.com/Raynos/mercury) and a ton of other pre-React frameworks?
  ricardobeat on HN