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@omeid2 I think you've distilled the issue very well -- it's all about "what is simpler code?". I hadn't thought of the issue in terms of the three C's you've mentioned, but the criteria also seems accurate. In my opinion, the popular SPA frameworks (Angular, React, Vue, etc) all suffer from similar problems. They build abstractions on top of abstractions, they force you to learn domain-specific languages (e.g., JSX), lots of new concepts to learn before you can be productive, they are fairly opinionated about how your application should be structured, etc. If you have the time, take a look at this JS framework I put together ( https://github.com/elliotnb/nimbly ) and it's state management dependency ( https://github.com/elliotnb/observable-slim ).
I built the framework so developers can take advantage of the benefits of modern frameworks (templating, data binding, state management, no explicit DOM manipulations, automated unit testing, loosely coupled modular components, etc) but without the typical drawbacks of modern frameworks. The framework has far fewer abstractions than React or Vue, requires no domain specific language (i.e., you write in plain HTML, CSS and JS), and does not require compiling/transpiling. The framework embraces the DOM instead of abstracting away from it and still refreshes/re-renders components in a highly performant manner via DocumentFragments. We've used the framework fairly extensively at my work because it plays very nicely with our jQuery-heavy legacy code and allows for much easier re-factors. The observer library has gained a fair bit of interest from other developers (~2k monthly downloads via npm) and it'd be great if I could interest others in trying out the framework too. I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who takes the time to try it out. Other contributors would be fantastic. |