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Leo Horie
Personal blog · lhorie.github.ioprogrammingweb
Leo Horie's personal blog at lhorie.github.io covers programming and web. Since 2014, 52 different Hacker News readers have linked it 121 times, most often “Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework17 people · 21 mentions · first linked 2014-03-18
- A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications11 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2014-12-01
- /mithril-blog/asymmetrical-data-bindings.html3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-08-14
- Getting over a fear of Turing complete templates3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-05-12
- A spreadsheet in 60 lines of JavaScript3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-11
- /mithril2 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-04-21
- /mithril/comparison.html2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-03-18
- Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why [Mithril] is [even more] Awesome2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-14
- Mithril : lessons learned from AngularJS2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-05
- /mithril/comparison.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-18
What Hacker News says?
Hi, Mithril author here. I'm not familiar w/ React's implementation, so I can't speak for them. With Mithril, the diffing algorithm is basically a recursive tree diff. In addition to diffing at the attribute level (and taking care of some broken edge cases), it can do things like detect parent changes and reattach unmodified trees to new parents, if needed. I generally don't like corner-case-specific optimizations b…
Comment linking /mithril-blog/an-exercise-in-awesomeness.html
on “Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome”Submitted Show HN: My new JavaScript MVC framework as a story · 304 points
HN discussionMithril docs: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/
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on “Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome”Submitted Curry flavored promises as a story · 28 points
HN discussionLeo Horie, author of Mithril, has written a blog post where he explains how to re-implement some of the article's examples using Mithril (React-like client-side Javascript MVC framework): http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/an-exercise-in-awesomen...
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on “Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome”Submitted Mithril.js Components as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI experimented with React a bit but I was a bit bugged by how large it was. The basic idea of rendering to a virtual DOM and having unidirectional data flow is really simple but I had trouble actually diving in to React's source code and seeing things under the hood (for example, I had to find a blog to see how the diffing algorithm worked). What are the other libraries out there that we can use for this virtual DOM…
Comment linking /mithril/
on “Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome”Submitted Mithril : lessons learned from AngularJS as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMithril.js website in elvish http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/archive/v0.1.34/
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on “List of April Fools' Day Announcements”Submitted Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why [Mithril] is [even more] Awesome as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhy not mithril? https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ Seems to be way faster, and easier to learn than any of those other framework/libs. For example: How is Mithril Different from Other React: Source: https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html "The most visible difference between React and Mithril is that React's JSX syntax does not run natively in the browser, whereas Mithril's uncompiled templates do. Both can…
Comment linking /mithril/comparison.html
on “State of the Art JavaScript in 2016”Submitted A spreadsheet in 60 lines of JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's some truth to that. My own experience was in writing a lot of vanilla JS, being pretty happy with it, and then wanting to grow bigger I investigated some of the frameworks. At the time, Angular 1.x was considered the thing, so I implemented a project in that (multiple drag and drop lists, items from lists into other lists, and so on), and tried to follow best practices as far as I could tell. DRY, decoupling…
Comment linking /mithril-blog/
on “How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016”Submitted Piggybacking requests in a widgety world as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlternative links: [2] http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ (using its own virtual Dom); I think there are other implementations around, too. [3] http://cycle.js.org/ (have a native driver) FYI.
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on “What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)”Submitted A Spreadsheet in 60 Lines of JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis post reminds me of these other two [0, 1] that ultimately lead Leo Horie to create Mithril [2], a tiny (5 KB down the line) but complete MVC framework that also eschews most of the criticism raised by the OP. The Mithril blog is also worth a look, it addresses a lot of concrete scenarios with recipies to solve common front end problems with the framework. For example, here's a post on asymetrical data binding […
Comment linking /mithril-blog/asymmetrical-data-bindings.html
on “2 years with Angular”Submitted Put Your Controllers on a Diet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks for the pointer, Leo. Also, thank you for the mithril blog. It is amazing. Everybody else, if you haven't read the mithril blog[1], YOU SHOULD BE READING THE MITHRIL BLOG. Even if you never plan to use mithril, you'll probably learn something interesting. 1: https://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/
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on “Angular 2 versus React”Submitted Decreasing Cognitive Load (with Examples from MIthril.js) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMithril is roughly equal in scope to Knockout+Sammy. The small gap between what most frameworks call "bidirectional data binding" and what it actually is in terms of vanilla js can be bridged with simple functions (I talk about that in a slightly more advanced context here: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/asymmetrical-data-bindi... ). Dependency tracking can refer to two things: tracking changes for the purpose…
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on “Riot – A React-like, 2.5K user interface library”Submitted Better templates with FP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFWIW, the framework I wrote (Mithril) is a direct product of working on a multiple-man-year Angular codebase and the pains that arise from such a beast. I wrote about that here ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/lessons-learned-from-an... ) On a related topic, I talk about complexity walls (the idea of code that outgrows a framework's zone of comfort) here ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/decreasing-cognit…
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on “Riot – A React-like, 2.5K user interface library”Submitted Building a "Seinfeld" app with Mithril.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHm. How does this compare to Mithril JS ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ )? I just looked at the doc and read this thread (at 61 comments). Same: * virtual dom * has its own tag syntax * Mithril has MSX, but also supports regular JS data structure with m("tag", {attr:val, onclick: func, [more tags, "text"]} * router Different: * Where Mithril allows you to build and transform resulting template structure before vi…
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on “Riot – A React-like, 2.5K user interface library”Submitted A JavaScript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhow is this compared to mithril? https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ , trying to find a front-end js framework/library these days for an embedded product (use browser to configure it), angular seems a bit heavy for me, have not learned react yet.
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on “Vue.js 1.0.0”Submitted Thoughts on performance(2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis. "Good view layer code means that templates should be as declarative as possible, NOT that the view layer as a whole should avoid procedural logic altogether." - https://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/getting-over-a-fear-of...
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on “Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack”Submitted Mithril – a client-side MVC framework as a story · 1 points
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