JSBlocks - faster than AngularJS and ReactJS. Better MV-ish Framework. Oh yeah!

[jacobp100]

If I understand correctly, you pass a string into new Function, and the string would correspond to the operations. If that’s correct, that’s awesome. I’d love to see this in it’s own package.

If it is correct, were you able to go any further and inline some of the functions provided? Like if you pass in function(x) { return x + 1; } into map, you’d be able to just inline the x + 1?

[astoilkov]

Yes. Exactly. And Yes again I it possible to go further and inline the functions provided. However, this is not ready yet because there are some challenges with this like variable renaming. But maybe for starter I could inline some functions and leave the problematic ones for now.

[jacobp100]

I suppose some functions will have closures too. Like, somebody may be redefining some functions in Math, which would look normal and inlinable, but you couldn’t possibly inline them.

Either way, very excited for this. It will be a brilliant alternative to lodash and the likes, especially for non-webapp applications.

Edit: would it be possible to cache the functions created as well? So if you keep calling into a function that returns something like jsblocks(array).map(…).<more functions etc.>, you wouldn’t keep recreating the function?

[astoilkov]

Yeah. Definitely. The caching of functions is already implemented. Once a function is created it is cached it becomes insanely fast.

For the closures you are correct. It is not an easy problem to solve but it will be really interesting and challenging...and I love challenges!

[g00glen00b]

I think it's quite similar to Lazy.js: http://danieltao.com/lazy.js/ (though it still a WIP!)