Anguish is a 2.4kB (1.2kB gzipped, fyi) reactive framework, similar to Vue and Alpine. No VDOMs, and no compilation needed!
<script src="//unpkg.com/anguishjs" defer></script>
<div x-data="{ count: 0 }">
<button @click="count++">Click me!</button>
<span x-text="count"></span>
</div>x-datadefines the component’s data…@clickupdatescountevery click…x-textsets thespan’s text…
Easy as! Just add the script tag in your <head>, and you can use components anywhere in the markup.
- 12 directives implemented:
x-data,x-name,x-text,x-html,x-show,x-bind/:bind,x-prop/.prop,x-on/@event,x-model,x-ref,x-setup&x-effect
As shown, x-data creates an inline component with the given scope. It’ll be rendered exactly where it is (rendering is
a bit misleading, everything is done in-place), and you can nest it as many times as you’d like.
It’s also not necessary to use an object literal, if things get too clumsy, you can move your data to a script:
<script>
const myApp = () => ({
size: 36,
topText: "Top text",
bottomText: "Bottom text",
});
</script>
<main x-data="myApp()">...</main>There are no limitations on which types can be used, and you can even have functions and getters:
<div x-data="{
count: 0,
increment() {
count++
},
get square() {
return count ** 2
},
}">
...
</div>Anguish is purely DOM-based. As such, you might find it weird that you don’t have something like an x-for, however,
named components render to simple elements which you can use!
<!-- this is a component! -->
<template x-name="item">
<li><span x-text="title"></span></li>
</template>
<input @change="list.append(item({ title: value }))" placeholder="Add an item...">
<ul x-ref="list"></ul>Adding x-name to a <template> tag exposes a function with it’s name.
Anguish also features DOM reactivity – code that uses elements from x-refs will automatically update when components
are added inside it are added inside it. You can access the component’s data through the $data property, which
contains everything in it’s scope.
Note that removing an element will not unmount the component. For that, $unmount() is available in the component’s
scope.