Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step

Re:Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtim... by yaoke259 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @08:36AM (#45025676)

Thanks for the questions and super valuable feedback! To be totally honest, I came from a Svelte/Framework background and just did not deeply consider/realise you can create a pure dom version and event handling with just plain js. It's definitely a valid point that I'll take into consideration into designing the next version. Currently it does seem a bit overengineered since the React, Vue and Svelte implementations are actually all wrappers over web components, and still potentially offer some (potential) advantages in advanced state management which I have not yet explored. I'll definitely look into this more deeply.

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Re:Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtim... by lelanthran on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:31AM (#45026306)

> How can you come from a Svelte/Framework background without first understanding basic JavaScript?

The charitable take: many of the younger f/end devs don't really know that $FRAMEWORK gets turned into Javascript. I've worked with one dev in the past 5 months who did not realise that Javascript is the underlying target of "compiling" their react project.

The uncharitable take: This was vibe-coded from a set of specs.

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Re:Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtim... by AlecSchueler on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @01:29PM (#45029666)

I've never felt so old. It's genuinely incredible to me that someone could be actively working with web technologies and not have a basic understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

Like, I get it, it's no different than starting with a high level language like JavaScript itself, but just wow. I remember when we didn't have these frameworks at all, when they were just about adding the missing stuff to js or making things a little easier for people in that world. Didn't realise we had moved on so far.

I'm not being critical btw, from the down votes I guess it came across that I was being down on OP but I'm genuinely just so surprised.

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Re:Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtim... by yaoke259 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @09:27AM (#45026254)

I'm just too lazy lol, only wrote raw even listeners when I had no other choice ahahahaha. somehow my brain just did not make the connection

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Re:Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtim... by tomByrer on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:58PM (#45031586)

eh, you're cool, don't worry about the naysayers

While yea it is nice to directly deliver to HTML (I've done it many times), reality is most UI is in other framework languages. Plus I think a strong use-case is making output / browsing inside UI AI interfaces, which are also likely in a framework.

You provided enough for others who really care to add a direct-to-HTML plugin/fork if they so choose. Many of us want to use frameworks.

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