Dead simple replacements for ginormous frameworks.
The web is a flawed environment for UI development. However, it is not the worst thing ever concieved for UI development, and it has improved over the last 30+ years. Most ginormous frameworks offer only small improvements on the vanilla web, yet come with performance costs, and become yet another thing to learn. Meaning, most of the development speed up is also never realized.
Before discounting the web as it is, try the 7GUIs with just HTML, CSS, and JS. I did here. You may just find that it's not great, but no worse than any other framework for the web.
These are NOT meant to be complete replacements for the existing JavaScript frameworks. Do not expect to be able to drop these into an existing project and magically unlock HUGE performance enhancing gains.
Knowing about these, and especially knowing how to implement these for yourself will NOT make you popular, or be a gold star on your resume. No one will hire you for "vanilla" JavaScript skills, or pay you fat stacks of crypto.
AI will NOT type this code for you, for it is beneath GitHub Copilot to work this primitively.
These are learning tools, to show how much of the Developer Experience promised by the big frameworks can easily be achieved with the vanilla web.
To use these "frameworks", you should be familiar with:
And, yes, I copied those directly from the competitors documentation, because it's the same.
However, you won't need any:
- Build tools
- Node.js
- npm
- etc.
Enjoy not having to learn any of that non-sense.
Just any old web-server will do, it's just HTML, CSS, and JS files ready to do real work.
Maybe if I get bored I'll add some JSDoc type information, so that TypeScript LSP can help me feel wicked smart.
Inevitably people will point out that none of the examples are a "real" app, even though they suffice to convince people to use the competitors. This means I may come and add more examples whenever someone points out I've clearly missed the point of [insert their favorite framework here].