News from maquettejs.org

We recently gained some experience using Maquette with Typescript. We were very impressed by how well Typescript is supported by IDE’s and how well it integrates with NodeJS build tooling.

Johan Gorter

Jun 9, 2015

Maquette 2.0

Since launching maquette, we have found a couple of opportunities to improve the API. Therefore, we thought it wise to make a 2.0 release.

The biggest change is that we changed the Projector to handle multiple projections at once. The creation of the DOM now happens immediately…

Johan Gorter

May 23, 2015

Other approach stateful components

Stateful components is a concept that React uses to preserve state in components across renders.

Maquette uses a fundamentally different approach. Component lifecycles are not managed by the virtual DOM library, but by the programmer.

Johan Gorter

Apr 15, 2015

Animations and more

Maquette has not been standing still in the past month, on the contrary. We released a new minor version, 1.6 which contains a better animations API. VelocityJS animations now work without any magic exactly the way is described on the velocityJS page (see the without JQuery section). We also…

Johan Gorter

Feb 27, 2015

Progressive enhancement

Progressive enhancement and virtual DOM usually do not mix. The DOM is either virtual or real. Maquette has two unique features that make progressive enhancement possible however.

First, maquette is very unobtrusive. Any DOM nodes that are not part of the…

Johan Gorter

Jan 8, 2015

What is new in version 1.4

The project has a new name, maquette. Furthermore, the following features have been added:

support for CSS transitions
DOM attributes are now used instead of properties based on the vnode property value type. Strings becomes…

Johan Gorter

Dec 28, 2014

Why a new virtual DOM framework

There are many virtual DOM frameworks to choose from already. React is widely used, Mithril is very good, many others look promising as well. Still, the framework I have in mind does not yet exist.