Hyper
Languages and libraries
frontend framework
SHOW HN2025
How HN took it
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 23 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score -0.50.
Docs: 0 for, 7 againstIdea: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Appealing terse sample code and the idea of simpler frontend
From 1 comment
I love utopian projects like this. And I’ll say there’s lots that is appealing about the sample code, not least its terseness, a factor that is going to really matter in the next…
vessenes on HN
Sprae-like approach is appealing
From 1 comment
Really like what I'm seeing so far. It looks a lot like Sprae: https://github.com/dy/sprae one of my favorite things that no one seems to be paying attention to :) I use it on…
superchris on HN
Objections
Performance claims for large datasets are questioned
From 2 comments
The React example w/ the complicated table API will work fine for zillions of records. Virtualization is not complex math, and there are many libraries that will implement it for…
jitl on HN> you must resort to WASM Where does the 'must' come from? A react component will trivially handle 200k records with list virtualisation with just javascript
madeofpalk on HN
Name conflicts with existing hyper projects
From 2 comments
I wish open-source projects checked to see if other projects share the same name. Especially since there are packages in NPM already about hyper. https://hyper.is/ has been…
slenk on HNSo many front end frameworks that they can't even all have unique names https://hyperdom.org/
streptomycin on HN
Stringly-typed template syntax is unappealing
From 2 comments
Please, not another `strings` programming language `‹tr : for="user of users">`
ohcmon on HNStringly typed templating language
mpeg on HN
Accessibility not mentioned as a goal
From 1 comment
I'm wondering why accessibility isn't listed as one of your goals when your building a "standards first" library? It's not even mentioned as a feature. I do realise your using…
apricot13 on HN
Requests
Make React comparison examples equal in features
From 3 comments
Only use 1:1 markup/features instead of adding those "modern react" examples.
pier25 on HNCan you change the React code to also just have one "card" class and nothing more? It shouldn't be 4 times longer than Nue.
rustc on HNWhy not just include equal features to comparisons? New framework should also handle the real-world scenarios.
nicce on HN
Address accessibility
From 1 comment
I'm wondering why accessibility isn't listed as one of your goals when your building a "standards first" library? It's not even mentioned as a feature. I do realise your using…
apricot13 on HN
Rename the project
From 1 comment
Yeah, this is a bad name for a new project. It happens. Might want to rename this early, since there's so much web related stuff named Hyper or has hyper in the name already.
andrewmcwatters on HN
Questions
How does it handle large tables and virtualization?
From 1 comment
How do you virtualize rendering of a table with 100,000 items with Hyper?
jitl on HN
How does it compare to React Server Components?
From 1 comment
How would you say that this solves the similar problems as React Server Components? E.g. yesterday's discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929054 Basically, how do…
nicce on HN
Why not embed HTML templates in JS?
From 1 comment
Why not just embed html templates in js at this point? Why js in html?
EGreg on HN
Alternatives named
React
From 1 comment
> This is an oldschool example using external CSS, which is no longer the "idiomatic" way to build React compomnents: Where does this claim come from? classNames and an external…
__jonas on HN
Sprae
From 1 comment
Really like what I'm seeing so far. It looks a lot like Sprae: https://github.com/dy/sprae one of my favorite things that no one seems to be paying attention to :) I use it on…
superchris on HN
Markojs
From 1 comment
You should take a look at markojs, it's also html-first but the syntax is IMHO more elegant as it extends html (especially the alpha of 6.0 syntax)
mpeg on HN
Qwik
From 1 comment
There are dozens of "better React" web frameworks, so it is impossible to get any traction with that value proposition because any attempt at building a new ecosystem will be…
lern_too_spel on HN
Facet
From 1 comment
I've been getting productive with Facet's approach, especially its 'templates as mixins' paradigm [0]. This gets really powerful when you consider how template scripts are…
dleeftink on HN