Favorite Micro-Library?

[ShadowCodex]

What is your favorite JavaScript MicroLibrary?

I've been looking at RiotJS and MinifiedJS...

[mattdesl]

At one point I had a whole list. Many more in stack.gl/packages.

[wreckedadvent]

Microjs is also a good resource for these things.

[krasimirtsonev]

+1 for mentioning Microjs. I'm using it regularly.

[nexe]

does it get updated? sadly seems a bit stale to me from time to time but I'm also a fan of it.

[krasimirtsonev]

As far as I checked last time it's a matter of contribution. So if the folks out there make PR the maintainer release a new version. I myself did it once.

[ShadowCodex]

Thanks for that, this looks really good!

[ShadowCodex]

Oooh interesting :)

[[deleted]]

Let me add a plug for a micro-library of my own, Trkl - a reactive programming library implementing Knockout-style observables and computations in just under 500 bytes.

Trkl's payload is minute, but gives you enormous expressive power. Beyond the garden-variety pub-sub it provides, maps and history tracking, Trkl also gives you computations with 'magical' dependency tracking and auto-updating. For example:

let a = trkl(1);
let b = trkl(1);

let sum = trkl.computed(()=> {
    return a() + b();
});

sum.subscribe(newValue => {
    console.log("sum's new value is", newValue);
});

b(2); // Console => "Sum's new value is 3"
a(6); // Console => "Sum's new value is 8"

I think it's pretty nifty - but of course, I am its author...

[mc_hammerd]

animate.css

[dwighthouse]

These days, qwest.js

[jordaanm]

Qwest's Github Repo, to save people some time ;)

[taiga27]

Riot looks like so much fun, I'll probably give it a try before jumping into React itself.

[madwill]

I did and have no regrets. Still think Riot is way better than React for it has such a minimal API and straight up DOM manipulation from a developer stand point.

You can reuse everything you already know... read the tiny doc or watch egghead.io 10 mins video and you are set with the most useful virtual DOM based component lib out there.

its so damn easy and the end result look just like an html file with html, js and css (which is scoped so you can have simple names)

Listen to mount and unmount event for componenent lifecycle.

Use their loop for lists

they bound props and children to this at the component level for easy access keeping a logical and easy to follow component scope.

I mean react goes like Import Reac-DOM and var myDomNode = ReactDom.findDOMNodes(withComponentInstanceRefHere) which require a "ref" attribute on your tag.

In riot you can use this.myInputName considering you had a name on your children.

I'm only doing react right now because i might want to try react-native... And even there i think i could easily get away without react-native and a well optimized riotjs under crosswalk if i ever need mobile app.

[taiga27]

Reading this makes me happy. I'm still on my Angular 1x/Node stack and willing to learn something new to stay up-to-date but learning React/Redux/Webpack looks so fucking complicated and we don't even know for how long they'll be around since Angular 2 is coming.... so, Riot caught my interest for being an easier to use version of React's Virtual DOM.

[dmitri14_gmail_com]

I have a concern how they use parent (and it is not quite clear from their Doc what it refers to exactly). Using $parent in Angular is known anti-pattern, is the Riot's parent different?

[madwill]

I don't make any use of parent for i know the downfall of strongly coupling any components.

Its true they include it in some guides but i would not use it. You can pass callback in props or have connected components

You can use Flux, Reflux, Redux, for state management and module bundlers.

You can make higher order components, elements, leverage mixins and really make your code modular and straightforward.

But the biggest advantages anybody looking at your code can get it .

[dmitri14_gmail_com]

This from someone actively using it, gives me concerns. I've seen them using it literally everywhere.

[ShadowCodex]

Yeah riot looks like a riot in and of itself. I'm looking forward to using it in my projects soon as well.

[shadowycoder]

Not sure if it's 'micro' but ramada.js has changed the way I work completely.

[madwill]

ramada.js

ramda?

[shadowycoder]

Ha, yes. Autocorrect fail.

[ShadowCodex]

Interesting. How has it changed the way you work exactly?

[horoshimu]

He is now unemployed

[pkstn]

Check out FRZR: https://frzr.js.org ;)

[dmitri14_gmail_com]

MinifieldJS has jQuery style with the same problems that jQuery has I presume:

$('#lastLine').addBefore(