[hhthrowaway1230]

knockout js is that you?

[rivetfasten]

I was about to mention this too.

Compare: "import a specific lightweight library and wire together as needed" vs "write the whole app in terms of a bloated framework".

I've been out of the frontend game for a while, but what does react give you that knockout and maybe some url management logic do not?

I guess components are supposed to standardize modularity, so you can easily import some random widget?

[alserio]

The biggest downside of knockout is that it parses the template from the dom, and the template is rendered as dom until first execution. Then that it eval it's bindings. I suppose tko should help with those issues but seems kinda dead. Knockout reactivity primitives are also a lot more naive then modern signals implementations.

[prokopton]

Rich Harris of Svelte often mentions Knockout when talking about Svelte’s signals.

[hhthrowaway1230]

how many permutations of Fe dev do we need?

- auto rerender by comparing trees?

- track all changes by signals?