does anyone have a favored library to use in vanilla JS when you can't reach for cljs/re-frame? I've been looking into redux but the async workflow seems much poorer than re-frame (in re-frame you just dispatch another event to add to the queue, but in redux it's an unsolved problem with about 15 third-party solutions and just as many discussions in the Github issues)

have you looked into cycle.js?

I'll check it out

I'm prototyping a small app to try and convince coworkers to move away from jquery spaghetti to some JS framework, so I'm trying to limit the number of new concepts I introduce. RX and alternative DOM libraries may be a bit of a reach, though I see it can be used with react and JSX which is nice

there is vue.js as well

http://vuejs.org/guide/

There's been various attempts to port the Elm Architecture into js land. Cycle.js is one of them (but you'll be using virtual-dom, not React). I also like this snabbdom-based approach: https://medium.com/@yelouafi/react-less-virtual-dom-with-snabbdom-functions-everywhere-53b672cb2fe3#.mh5vs534d. If you want to be strictly React there's .... hmmm let me find it .... starts with 'y' ...

anyone tried using goog.async.Debouncer ?

@mikethompson: not necessarily strictly react, but I like the idea of keeping a semi-standard templating language that users of Handlebars et al. will be familiar with (looks and feels like HTML)

somehow importing goog.async.Debouncer is failing

http://google.github.io/closure-library/api/source/closure/goog/async/debouncer.js.src.html

@mikethompson: Would it be hard to do a straight-up port of re-frame in JS?

I guess the reagent atom is big for subscriptions

and reaction

but maybe redux with the re-frame router

redux always seemed pretty close to re-frame ... right down to middleware (but without the slightest credit :-() ,,, but again with a bias towards the more pure Elm way of doing things

@jmmk: this might provide a good source of comparison - https://github.com/staltz/flux-challenge

See: https://github.com/staltz/flux-challenge/tree/master/submissions#submissions-and-libraries-used

Yolk! That's the library I was looking for above ... the one that is like Cycle.js but uses React: https://github.com/garbles/yolk