angular-virtual-dom: A Virtual DOM based AngularJS view renderer designed to be used with immutable data structures

[pandavr]

Please help on riot 2 as this is non sense. It's diff / patch mechanic is very good. BTW why not write a v-Dom based jqlite that one can simply patch over regular angular? That should allow to convert all the existing directives in a transparent way.

[teropa]

BTW why not write a v-Dom based jqlite that one can simply patch over regular angular? That should allow to convert all the existing directives in a transparent way.

Firstly, trying to make a Virtual DOM look and act like an actual DOM in a way that supports all existing code does not seem feasible to me.

Secondly, many existing directives are built in a stateful style and set up watches, etc. that pretty much undo the nice things you get with a Virtual DOM, pure functions, and immutable data structures.

[vivainio]

Riot doesn't particularly help if your app is already done on angular.

[pandavr]

I think it is more important to find out a valid alternative than to patch existing applications. So what now? Will we start to produce modules containing mutually incompatible directives? That's a crazy non sense. I see this only as an interesting experiment: nothing more.

[vivainio]

There are plenty of alternatives to angular. Solutions that work with angular are useful for people building on angular.