lean / frontend-stack

A collection of JavaScript libraries and resources to build your own stack.

Frontend Stack

"There will never be a perfect framework so you can just hack the most relevant features together using npm." krazyjaykee, Reddit

Priorities

• Simple documentation
• Modular components
• Single responsibility
• zero-dependencies
• NPM ready

Loaders

• webpack - Module loader made for big projects. Supports AMD, CommonJS, and more.

Routing

• page.js - Micro client-side router inspired by the Express router.
• rlite - Tiny, light-weight JavaScript routing with zero-dependencies

Control Flow

• async - Async utilities for node and the browser

Templating Engine

• handlebars.js - An extension to the Mustache templating language.
• dot.js - The fastest + concise javascript template engine for nodejs and browsers. Partials, custom delimiters and more.
• monkberry Monkberry is blazingly fast, small 1kb and simple JavaScript library for building web user interfaces.

Data Binding + Template

• Rivets - Lightweight and powerful data binding + templating solution
• Reactive - template-driven UI library

Views - Components - UI

• react - A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• riot - A React- like, 3.5KB user interface library

Functional Programming

• underscore - JavaScript's utility _ belt.
• lodash - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras.

Event-Driven Engine

• EventEmitter - Evented JavaScript for the browser
• eddy - Event Driven JS

DOM Utilities

• Bonzo - A library agnostic extensible DOM utility. Nothing else.
• classie - class helper functions.

DOM Events

• Bean - small, fast, cross-platform, framework-agnostic event manager designed for desktop, mobile, and touch-based browsers