Sentinel.JS

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SHOW HN2014

41points
26comments
#766of 2,272 in 2014
Top 34%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.

Idea: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Cool idea and worth watching as it grows

    From 1 comment
    • It does look simpler but could it be because there are less functionalities and it is less extensible? won't be enough to be called an alternative. I voted up though because I…
      BPm on HN

Objections

  • Simplifying Angular.js is unnecessary; Angular is battle tested

    From 1 comment
    • I don't really understand why there is a need to simplify something like AngularJS. Kudos for building something but I'd rather stick with the battle tested version thanks. If…
      jwblackwell on HN
  • Lacks directives and routing compared to Angular.js

    From 3 comments
    • No support for routing?
      Kiro on HN
    • So you have no directives, no routing, just 2 way data binding. Sorry sir, you may have heard about angular.js but you don't understand it at all.
      SchizoDuckie on HN
    • It does look simpler but could it be because there are less functionalities and it is less extensible? won't be enough to be called an alternative. I voted up though because I…
      BPm on HN
  • Seems more complicated than alternatives like Vue.js

    From 1 comment
    • This actually looks more complicated that VueJS. Which I would highly, highly recommend. It's one of the fastest out of all the frameworks, solid documentation and very easy to…
      threeseed on HN

Requests

  • Feedback on how well it simplifies Angular.js

    From 1 comment
    • I have often wondered if the nice things provided by Angular.js can be provided in a simpler interface and Sentinel.js is the result of my attempts to do so. I need someone to…
      imakesnowflakes on HN

Questions

  • How is routing handled

    From 2 comments
  • Why it uses data-* attributes

    From 2 comments
    • Why does no client-side framework beside Knockout use data-* attributes? Whyy??
      marcoms on HN
    • Why do you want data-* attributes? If only for validation, why?
      Kiro on HN

Alternatives named

  • AngularJS

    From 1 comment
    • I don't really understand why there is a need to simplify something like AngularJS. Kudos for building something but I'd rather stick with the battle tested version thanks. If…
      jwblackwell on HN
  • Vue.js

    From 1 comment
    • This actually looks more complicated that VueJS. Which I would highly, highly recommend. It's one of the fastest out of all the frameworks, solid documentation and very easy to…
      threeseed on HN
  • AngularLite

    From 1 comment
    • If you are looking for a templating/data-binding solution that works like Angular.js, but without all the framework stuff. You can actually use Angular.js for it. All you have to…
      julius on HN
  • Knockout

    From 1 comment
    • Why does no client-side framework beside Knockout use data-* attributes? Whyy??
      marcoms on HN
  • React

    From 1 comment

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