Show HN: GrainJS – a light TypeScript web framework

Show HN: GrainJS – a light TypeScript web framework(gristlabs.github.io)

5 points by dsagal 188 days ago | 4 comments

GrainJS is a JavaScript / TypeScript library for building dynamic web applications.

- It's in part inspired by React, but based on observables (like Knockout) instead of virtual dom.

- It is lightweight, has no dependencies, and takes only ~30KB minified.

- It needs no special tooling. It's nothing more than a library.

- It supports convenient DOM-building in JS, event dispatching, DOM event subscriptions, 9disposable components, and in-code CSS styling.

- It's fully typed for use with TypeScript.

- It's proven its worth by powering Grist's rich frontend app.

Source code: https://github.com/gristlabs/grainjs/

arunkumars91 188 days ago |

Why is it special? I was going over the link but couldn't get anything right away.

dsagal 188 days ago | |

It enables much of what a large framework like React enables, but with a much simpler implementation, less tooling need to use it, and (some may argue) more convenient usage.

arunkumars91 188 days ago | | |

Understood, but is it worth another learning curve?