SPA in riotJS

Riot.js is pretty amaze

Why? Because minimalism.

features

• No dependencies on Jquery, templating systems, or other to work
• Component everything
• Router
• ReactJS-like syntax w/o JSX
• No proprietary event handling (bleh)
• Small footprint as compared to AngularJS, ReactJS (12.5KB minified)
• Syntax is a pleasure to write, way cleaner than ReactJS
• Virtual Dom
• LifeCycle events on component
• Tags can be rendered server-side (nodeJS)
• Can use any preprocessor (Coffeescript, ES6, etc)
• Faster to parse, cheaper to download as far as payload
• Vanilla JS!!!

To Run

Tab A:

$ npm i

Tab B:

$ grunt compile (continue to run compile or add watch)

Tab C:

$ grunt serve

Todos

• Serve components via node
• App config file for setting defaults based on environment