[zdragnar]

I don't mean to knock the effort they've put in here, but this looks like all of the hand-rolled "frameworks" I saw my friends in the agency / consulting space made when they said angular 1 was "too heavy"... right down to the 'data-controller' attribute binding that everyone seemed to independently come up with.

Is there anything actually novel here? These types of things always seemed to run into composition issues (controllers inside of controllers) in terms of communication and what not. The net result was invariably far less appealing than, say, angular 1 or vue or non-SPA React.

[jurre]

Isn't the fact that you've seen a bunch of people already hand-roll this a good indication that there's a need for something like this, so no-one else needs to hand-roll it anymore?

It doesn't need to be novel right? It just needs to be helpful.

[zdragnar]

I tried to address that gently in my second paragraph. Every one of those were abandoned. The most complete one's developer said "what the hell was I doing?" onve he finally gave angular 1 a shot.

[newfoundglory]

Plenty of people have hand rolled crypto too. "Lots of people do it" doesn't always point to an actual gap in the available tools.

[sli]

Honestly I don't know why I'd want Stimulus over regular old web components if I wasn't going to use a whole library like React. It doesn't look like it adds much beyond what web components already give you.

[hinkley]

data- comes out of HTML5 but jQuery was one of the first libraries to touch it.

It’s likely a significant fraction of people who jumped to the same solutions had some prior exposure to jquery.