Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button

Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by nine_k on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @12:59PM (#43549055)

Nue indeed looks interesting. I could not immediately understand whether it uses a one-way data binding. Without it, and without a reactive model of some sort, building large UIs becomes a pain.

The React-based button from some framework is either over-engineered, or does way more than just a button. Using or not using such a component is a choice.

React may be a bit large (like 30-50 kB for a "hello world"), but preact is below 6 kB and gives you 90% of the React power for lighter-weight apps.

Also, the point of React is building huge and hugely complex dynamic UIs. There are much lighter-weight tools to add small bits of interactivity to mostly static pages, which are still the majority of the Web. (Ironically, HTMX is 14 kB, 2.5 timex larger than preact.)

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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by recursivedoubts on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @11:38PM (#43553444)

We also created fixi, which is sort of preact to htmx’s react:

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi

a goal of fixi is to be smaller uncompressed than preact is compressed, to force us to be minimalist

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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by nine_k on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @02:15AM (#43554077)

This is really nice and simple.

I wonder how would the Web develop if something like this appeared in 1997 along with DHTML.

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