[seanlaff]

Would we expect the list to re-render once the fetch finishes? This may just be years of react poisoning my brain

    const Stargazers = () => {
      const stargazers = van.state([]);
      fetch(`https://api.github.com/repos/vanjs-org/van/stargazers?per_page=5`)
        .then((r) => r.json())
        .then((r) => stargazers.val = r);
      
      return ul(
        stargazers.val.map((s) => li(s.login))
      );
    };

[taoxin]

Yes. This is how VanJS works. Code with VanJS is often more concise compared to equivalent code with React.

[seanlaff]

Ah ok! Very cool. Maybe I'm still missing a tiny piece of syntax? I don't see any output when I run that code in the fiddle

https://jsfiddle.net/397fb684/

[taoxin]

Ah.. you need a binding function to wrap the state-derived content into a reactive UI element, see: https://vanjs.org/tutorial#state-derived-child. I made the change in your code to make it work: https://jsfiddle.net/rkfmpx06/1/

[seanlaff]

Oh! I understand, thanks for walking through that. Yes very terse compared to the equivalent react :)