Monkberry
Languages and libraries
ui library
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
7 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Performance: 3 for, 6 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Well designed and clean library with small client-side code
From 3 comments
Damn, so much negativity. This library actually looks well designed (and I'm saying this as a virtual dom library author)
lhorie on HNAbsolutely! I started a comment yesterday about what i found interesting skimming through the code of this library, but abandoned midways because i could almost see the snarky…
epidemian on HNThe site presenting it has issues but the library itself seems pretty decent. Keep it up man.
gldev on HN
Compiles templates to plain JS DOM calls, avoiding virtual DOM overhead
From 2 comments
Absolutely! I started a comment yesterday about what i found interesting skimming through the code of this library, but abandoned midways because i could almost see the snarky…
epidemian on HNActually a clean library .Github has more details on why it is faster than React >Monkberry is 10 times faster, sometimes 100 times faster. It's because Monkberry will do only…
hitr on HN
Objections
Site's animated star background hurts performance
From 2 comments
OT: Can somebody please tell em, to stop the excessive use of css animations(the moving star field background). It pegs one of my cores, and raises my laptops temperature to the…
3D4y0 on HNJust some advice, that star animation slows the page to an incredibly sluggish state (latest Chrome on late 2013 retina MacBook Pro). Removing the `stars` and `js-stars` classes…
supernintendo on HN
Unclear why to choose it over other libraries beyond speed claims
From 1 comment
Given this is a website by someone purporting to be providing a "blazingly fast" JS UI lib, comments on UI perf. seem pretty on-topic. Given the general lack of info on the site…
lucideer on HN
Typo-like error in homepage template example
From 1 comment
In the example <button type="submit">Add #{{ todos.length }}</button> should probably be <button type="submit">Add #{{ todos.length + 1 }}</button> :-)
gnuchu on HN
Requests
Provide a dbmon benchmark for apples-to-apples comparison
From 1 comment
I asked the author if he could put together a dbmon so we could compare apples to apples. Unfortunately, React is not a good representative of modern virtual dom…
lhorie on HN
Questions
What problem does it solve that React does not?
From 1 comment
what problem does this library solve that reactjs does not solve?
ruler88 on HN
What can it do that vanilla JS cannot?
From 1 comment
What it can do that VanillaJs can't?
geekodour on HN
Alternatives named
React
From 2 comments
what problem does this library solve that reactjs does not solve?
ruler88 on HNActually a clean library .Github has more details on why it is faster than React >Monkberry is 10 times faster, sometimes 100 times faster. It's because Monkberry will do only…
hitr on HN
VueJS
From 1 comment
This first thing I thought to compare this to was VueJS. It seems like the next step up if you were to need a bit more from your framework. Or is this an unfair comparison?
Kred on HN
Riot.js
From 1 comment
I'm using riotjs (http://www.riotjs.com) which is closer to this than React, but it's "standard" HTML templates with controllers _with_ the template so all relevant code is…
voiper1 on HN
jtmpl
From 1 comment
I did something quite similar couple years ago [jtmpl.com]. Main difference is Monkberry uses Jinja-inspired templating language and jtmpl uses Mustache (with slightly changed…
atmin on HN