[Raynos]

I have a similar frustration with React. The source code is very hard to read our follow.

An ideal "barebones" virtual dom library looks like https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom . The `virtual-dom` module was build out of frustration with the readability of react source code and is the minimal modular subset.

I've also built a small framework on top `virtual-dom` to add in essentials like immutable state and event handling ( https://github.com/Raynos/mercury ). Whilst mercury might not be the best way to structure apps, it's an approach that is getting me far and I'm drawing strong inspiration from FRP and FP systems like Elm and om.

[ufo]

Is there a single-file version of virtual dom available for download? I am not finding any instructions in the repo on how to build it. Also, why does it have so many files in the first place?

[Raynos]

I opened this PR on virtual-dom ( https://github.com/Matt-Esch/virtual-dom/pull/67 ) to get a single file version into the git repo.

It has many folders because the `vtree`, `vdom` and `h` are fundamentally seperate concepts.

Again each one is seperated into it's own files, this allows you to just require the `is-x` functions or the `diff` function alone without having to depend on the entire implementation.

It's also easier to maintain code if it's not one big file.

There are plans to break vtree & vdom out

- https://github.com/Matt-Esch/vtree - https://github.com/Matt-Esch/vdom

Note `vdom` is an implementation detail, we could also write `vcanvas` or `vwebgl`