hyperapp/hyperapp
Hyperapp
Hyperapp is a lightweight JavaScript framework for building web applications. It functions as a declarative state management system that synchronizes the user interface with a centralized application state.
The framework utilizes a virtual DOM to render user interfaces and reconcile changes to the browser display. It employs a subscription model to synchronize external web APIs and asynchronous events with the global state.
The system manages data through a single-state-tree architecture, where updates are handled via discrete actions and pure functions. This approach ensures that the view updates automatically whenever the underlying state changes.
Features
- Lightweight UI Frameworks - Provides a minimalist JavaScript framework designed for building fast web applications with low bundle size.
- State Managers - Manages global application data through a declarative subscription model and discrete action updates.
- Application State Management - Manages global application state and triggers view updates via discrete actions.
- Action-Based State Transitions - Implements a pattern where discrete action objects trigger state changes through pure functions.
- Centralized State Stores - Maintains the entire application state in a single immutable object tree as the source of truth.
- Declarative State Managers - Updates global application data through discrete actions and pure functions to trigger automatic view changes.
- Declarative UI Paradigms - Uses a declarative model where the interface is automatically reconciled whenever the underlying state changes.
- Virtual DOM Rendering Engines - Creates a lightweight virtual representation of the interface to reduce browser rendering overhead.
- Pure Function Renderers - Generates the user interface by passing the current state into a pure function that returns a virtual tree.
- Virtual DOM Implementations - Uses a lightweight virtual DOM representation to optimize UI rendering through state reconciliation.
- Centralized State Management - Maintains application data in a single source of truth within the browser environment.
- Virtual DOM Reconciliation - Efficiently updates the browser DOM by comparing a virtual tree to the actual display.
- Web Application Frameworks - A small-footprint framework for creating web applications that synchronize browser APIs and UI states.
- Web API Integration - Integrates browser capabilities like network requests and timers through a declarative subscription model.
- State Change Subscriptions - Provides a subscription model to synchronize external web APIs and asynchronous events with application state.
- API Subscription Managers - Manages asynchronous web events and HTTP requests by connecting them to state through subscriptions.
- Synchronous Event Wrappers - Manages asynchronous web events and requests using a simplified model to keep logic easy to follow.
- Frontend Frameworks - A micro-framework for building modern web applications.
- MVC Frameworks - Ultra-lightweight frontend application library.
- Web Frameworks - 1kb JavaScript library for building frontend applications.
