Sweet.js readtables and JSX macros

James Long implemented a JSX compiler using Sweet.js macros. Very neat. I can probably port it to work with Mithril as well.

Lessons learned from Angular

I just realized that I completely forgot to announce here that I posted this article about lessons learned from Angular on the Mithril Blog.

There, I talk about some of the rationales for why Mithril templates are designed the way they are, and what makes them so powerful.

Piggybacking requests in a widgety world

This week's post on the Mithril blog talks about how we can use MVC's separation of concerns to implement a neat model-level optimization

An exercise in awesomeness

I wrote a follow-up article to James Long's fantastic Removing user interface complexity article, where I ported some of the code examples to Mithril.

HN post

Getting over a fear of turing complete templates

Over at the Mithril blog, I wrote an article about the erroneous belief that turing completeness leads to bad code and how it can be used to achieve better expressiveness in MVC templates.

JS animations are cool again

A while back GSAP made a (at the time controversial) claim that JS-based animations are actually as fast as CSS based ones (if not faster). It's just jQuery that is slow.

Now, there's Velocity.js, which brings that GSAP-like speed back to the world of jQuery.

What GSAP showed us is that Javascript animations can be really powerful (or as it advertises, "impossible w/ CSS3"). A similar trend is that of constraint-based layout engines popping up. In the Mithril blog and docs, I've been talking about the expressive power of Javascript in the context of data binding engines and template componentization (something that has been generally in the domain of the HTML language) and this same expressive power is starting to flourish in the styling and flair arena.

It's really looking like Javascript is taking the reins away from CSS. I like this trend.

Mithril benchmark

Just stumbled upon someone's benchmark of Angular, Ember, Knockout, React and Mithril. Thought others might be interested in seeing it as well.

Curry flavored promises

I wrote an article about using Promises and currying over at the Mithril blog.

Building a "Seinfeld" app w/ Mithril.js

Just reblogging from my Mithril blog