[panoply]

I choose Mithril.js regardless of the apps complexity nowadays. I've built apps in React and Vue and do agree that Vue is the logical choice over React but I don't see it as ground breaking or magical. I see Vue for what it is, A JavaScript framework that gained popularity by being included by default in the Laravel framework and now has good financial backing.

Mithril.js is a framework that is truly "magical" in my opinion. I mean its 8kb, includes routing and XHR Utilities out of the box. Faster render times than Angular, Vue and React. You can write HyperScript or JSX. The syntactic variants allow you to write your components as ES6 Classes or closures. Lifecycle methods, a render and mount option and the list goes on and on. People tend to dismiss Mithril because it's a lesser known framework but it has a vigorously thought through programmatic approach and you've got a direct line with the maintainers, you cannot match that.

Sure, each to their own but calling Vue "Magical" is an incorrect assessment.

[aidenn0]

I also use Mithril, and in my opinion, it's less "magical" than React in the sense that the GP is using[1].

When I ran into an issue using React, tracking it down was extremely difficult (by the end it was just "difficult" due to improved tooling around react). Mithril is small largely because of its simple implementation, which makes debugging a joy.

1: They seem to mean magical in the sense if "I'm never going to understand how it works"