Matt-Esch/virtual-dom on Hacker News

…and, critically, with whom... fuck all that though, the objectively bestest solution is always https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom /s That repo is a milestone of where history took its next wrong turn. I remember it making some waves…

comment by balamatom · 2025-09-03 · in Next.js is infuriating

…recommend using highly simple build tooling (maybe Brunch) and an extremely simple view layer like https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom . Pretty much everything else you can build yourself with surprisingly few lines of code -- state…

comment by l_t · 2018-04-10 · in Ask HN: Resources for catching up on modern JavaScript for Python/C++ Programmer

Better DOM APIs, surely. It could be anything from JSX to https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom/tree/master/virtual... . When all you can pass to an attribute is a string, it's very hard to seriously talk about useful extensible custom…

comment by dmitriid · 2017-03-15 · in The broken promise of Web Components

…It is indeed very similar to Matt Esch's original [1]. The Elm port reads nicely in one file. [1] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

comment by shoover · 2016-08-30 · in Blazing Fast HTML: Elm vs. React vs. Angular vs. Ember

…There is virtual-hyperscript which ports the above to virtual-dom: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom/tree/master/virtual... I made a similar-ish "library" about an year ago: https://gist.github.com/awalGarg/8a0e18c6fe8

comment by awalGarg · 2016-08-29 · in RE:DOM – Tiny DOM library

…perhaps not as custom as I made it sound. The code we have is a wrapper around the [virtual-dom]( https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom ) library which does most of the low level work. The "widget" framework is a series of simple ES6…

comment by EvilTrout · 2016-02-26 · in We finally did something about [Ember on] Android Performance

…to start learning first with a decent foundation of just "what is a virtual dom?" This was useful: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

comment by tyingq · 2016-02-14 · in Learn Raw React – No JSX, No Flux, No ES6, No Webpack

If you want just the vdom model, look at https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom I remember at one point mithril's vdom implementation was based on virtual-dom but I can't seem to find any documentation to back this up.

comment by shuzchen · 2016-01-05 · in Angular 2 versus React

Aurelia at work and for personal projects I use virtual-dom ( https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom ). There are plenty of (IMO) better view libraries out there that can be nicely paired with Redux, so naturally it's upsetting to see…

comment by marknutter · 2015-11-25 · in A Simple Way to Route with Redux

…to strong technical arguments. :) [1] https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150311-react-bad-idea [2] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom [3] https://www.nativescript.org/ "

comment by kevindeasis · 2015-11-22 · in React vs. Angular 2

…to strong technical arguments. :) [1] https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20150311-react-bad-idea [2] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom [3] https://www.nativescript.org/

comment by SomeCallMeTim · 2015-11-22 · in What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)

…of truth" philosophy[2] so there isn't really a sense of component-local state or lifecycle. [0] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom [1] https://gist.github.com/evancz/2b2ba366cae1887fe621#nesting [2] like Om except more so

comment by masklinn · 2015-07-26 · in Optimistic UI and Reactive Programming with Elm

…esch's virtual-dom has very similar syntax as this for anyone looking for the same with JavaScript: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom Makes server-side and client side rendering a cinch. Here is an example of it in action in…

comment by malandrew · 2015-06-10 · in Hiccup – A subset of Clojure used for generating HTML

That isn't true though: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

comment by Akkuma · 2015-06-02 · in Is ReactJS really fast?

…more than just re-rendering. You can of course have a virtual DOM (via a lib like Mithril or https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom etc.) but it would be nice to handle other kinds of events besides just "re-rendering".

comment by zkhalique · 2015-05-25 · in What Comes After MVC

…Profilers : Chrome and Edge Profilers. Collaboration Tools : Not sure what you mean by this. [1] : https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom [2] : https://github.com/sebinsua/jstruct

comment by ganarajpr · 2015-05-22 · in Ask HN: What is the state of the art set of tools for front end Web developers?

https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom/

comment by fiatjaf · 2015-05-12 · in Deku: How we built our functional alternative to React

virtual-dom is all you need: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom There is a reason why both elm and mercury uses virtual-dom under the hood to generate and manipulate the DOM. Plus you can render server-side:…

comment by malandrew · 2015-04-23 · in Sprint – A high-performance, DOM library for modern browsers

Size of code could be a good reason: This appears to be just 43kb: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom/blob/master/dist/vi... Whereas Facebook react 0.13.1 (without addons) weighs in at 599kb, or 121kb minified. Note that I know…

comment by steveridout · 2015-04-02 · in Virtual-dom – A Virtual DOM and diffing algorithm

…or virtual-gl). Would be really nice if this stuff can be used by other libraries easily. [0] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom [1] http://elm-lang.org/ [2] https://github.com/Raynos/mercury

comment by malandrew · 2015-01-28 · in Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps

…checking out: https://github.com/evancz/elm-html Both mercury and elm-html rely on virtual-dom: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom Anyways, small modular libraries FTW!

comment by malandrew · 2015-01-06 · in Smalltalk MVC Translated to JavaScript

…community thought of the criticism here and if anyone has experience with the alternative promoted https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

comment by jackhoy · 2014-12-31 · in Don't React (Presentation - Use arrows to navigate)

…without using React and its component, several VDOM-only pure=js libraries have sprouted up e.g. https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom (the basis for elm-html, and the Mercury react-like framework)

comment by masklinn · 2014-12-24 · in No more JavaScript frameworks

…should instead be using a virtual DOM implementation like virtual-dom, famo.us, react or mithril. https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

comment by malandrew · 2014-12-17 · in You Don't Need JQuery

Why use templating at all? Just use virtual DOM: https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom Server-side rendering example: https://github.com/Raynos/mercury/blob/master/examples/serve... It feels more tedious at first if you try using…

comment by malandrew · 2014-11-13 · in A comparison of JavaScript templating engines: Jade, Mustache, Dust and more

What, you mean like virtual-dom[1]? [1] https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom

comment by lomnakkus · 2014-10-13 · in Nunjucks – A rich and powerful templating language for JavaScript by Mozilla

I opened this PR on virtual-dom ( https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom/pull/67 ) to get a single file version into the git repo. It has many folders because the `vtree`, `vdom` and `h` are fundamentally seperate concepts. Again each…

comment by Raynos · 2014-05-14 · in Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome

…source code is very hard to read our follow. An ideal "barebones" virtual dom library looks like https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom . The `virtual-dom` module was build out of frustration with the readability of react source code and…

comment by Raynos · 2014-05-14 · in Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome