rpeanut / mithril.js

A Javascript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications (development repo)

Mithril

A Javascript Framework for Building Brilliant Applications

See the website for documentation and the wiki for more

There's also a blog and a mailing list

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What is Mithril?

Mithril is a client-side MVC framework - a tool to organize code in a way that is easy to think about and to maintain.

Light-weight

• Only 7.8 kB gzipped, no dependencies
• Small API, small learning curve

Robust

• Safe-by-default templates
• Hierarchical MVC via components

Fast

• Virtual DOM diffing and compilable templates
• Intelligent auto-redrawing system

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Sample code

//namespace
var app = {};

//model
app.PageList = function() {
	return m.request({method: "GET", url: "pages.json"});
};

//controller
app.controller = function() {
	var pages = app.PageList();
	return {
		pages: pages,
		rotate: function() {
			pages().push(pages().shift());
		}
	}
};

//view
app.view = function(ctrl) {
	return [
		ctrl.pages().map(function(page) {
			return m("a", {href: page.url}, page.title);
		}),
		m("button", {onclick: ctrl.rotate}, "Rotate links")
	];
};


//initialize
m.mount(document.getElementById("example"), app);

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Learn more

• Installation
• Tutorial
• Differences from Other Frameworks
• Benchmarks