Mithril.js 2.0 Released

https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/releases/tag/v2.0.1

by mesaframe • 7 years ago

92 19 7 years ago

big user of mithril is lichess, in both web and mobile app

CharlesW3• 7 years ago

This seems like a significant release, so it's a shame that there's nothing in the changelog or on the interwebs at large that tells me why it matters. Does anyone know?

smuemd2• 7 years ago

From v1: https://mithril.js.org/migration-v1x.html#migrating-from-v1x

smuemd2• 7 years ago

From v0.2: https://mithril.js.org/migration-v02x.html

lhorie3• 7 years ago

Over time, a few things were identified that would require a breaking change to improve. These changes have to happen at some point, and the 2.0 milestone is that. The community agreed that a big bang major release makes migration easier than many disjointed breaking changes mixed with other bug fixes of various priorities.

Prior to this release, the Mithril team went through painstaking troubles to release RCs to help consumers prepare for the breaking changes and find issues before the official version bump. Now that the code is deemed stable, the 2.0 milestone simply formalizes that the major version bump is now official.

CharlesW3• 7 years ago

lhorie and smuemd, thank you for the additional detail, but as a non-Mithril user I still don't understand the big picture.

For example, Vue 2.0's announcement[1] made clear that the release was about performance, new render functions enabling new component-based patterns, and server-side rendering.

What's going to "wow" Vue and React users who haven't looked at Mithril?

[1] https://medium.com/the-vue-point/vue-2-0-is-here-ef1f26acf4b...

apitman• 7 years ago

Mithril is fantastic. I think it does a great job of giving you the 20% of features that cover 80% of what you need to do for a solid web app.

toastercat2• 7 years ago

Huge congrats to the Mithril team. Been using Mithril for over two years now. I credit Mithril and its amazing community for making me the front-end developer I am today. When the massive amount of tooling and plugins for React overwhelmed me, the simplicity of Mithril and its focus on JavaScript fundamentals saved me and helped me gain a better understanding of modern JavaScript UI frameworks.

If you're curious, I highly recommend giving Mithril a shot, if not just for a simple toy project. The Gitter chat (https://gitter.im/mithriljs/mithril.js) is also always active and full of great people.

simplify• 7 years ago

Mithril is a true work of art. Rendering, routing, and XHR are all provided in a bundle under 10kb. All pure JavaScript with no compilation needed. Closure-style components that make React Hooks look wholly unnecessary. And the list goes on.

So many correct decisions made, slowly and carefully, by a fantastic community that values discovering the right way to do things above all else.

wishinghand• 7 years ago

Not sure what React hooks are other than maybe a replacement for Redux, but how does using closures help out?

oceanghost2• 7 years ago

Can someone explain what Mithril is and why I might want it? Not a troll.

grzm• 7 years ago

https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/blob/next/README.md#...

”What is Mithril?”
”A modern client-side Javascript framework for building Single Page Applications. It's small (9.55 KB gzipped), fast and provides routing and XHR utilities out of the box.”

oceanghost2• 7 years ago

Obviously, I was looking for something more than your pedantry.

lhorie3• 7 years ago

It's a web framework, similar to React/Angular/Vue. It comes with router and xhr utilities (like Angular), but it's smaller and faster than React/Vue.

What makes it interesting is that it has a very pragmatic philosophy: if you have 10 mins to spare, going over the getting started guide will cover the majority of what is really needed to build a meaningful web app, which makes it ideal for devs who aren't interested in complicated webpack setups and just want to get stuff done (you can use it idiomatically from a plain HTML and a CDN, even).

People like Mithril because it's more "vanilla JS" than other frameworks.

Mithril.js 2.0 Released

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