Fre

👻 1kb Concurrent UI library with Fiber.

Concurrent with Fiber — This is an amazing idea, which implements the coroutine scheduler in JavaScript, and the rendering is asynchronous, which supports Time slicing and suspense components.
Highly-optimized algorithm — Fre has a better reconciliation algorithm, which traverses from both ends with O (n) complexity, and supports keyed.
Do more with less — After tree shaking, project of hello world is only 1KB, but it has most fetures, virtual DOM, hooks API, functional component and more.

Use

yarn add fre

import { h, render, useState } from 'fre'

function App() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0)
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>{count}</h1>
      <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>+</button>
    </div>
  )
}

render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'))

Hooks API

useState

useState is a base API, It will receive initial state and return a Array

You can use it many times, new state is available when component is rerender

function App() {
  const [up, setUp] = useState(0)
  const [down, setDown] = useState(0)
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>{up}</h1>
      <button onClick={() => setUp(up + 1)}>+</button>
      <h1>{down}</h1>
      <button onClick={() => setDown(down - 1)}>-</button>
    </div>
  )
}

useReducer

useReducer and useState are almost the same，but useReducer needs a global reducer

function reducer(state, action) {
  switch (action.type) {
    case 'up':
      return { count: state.count + 1 }
    case 'down':
      return { count: state.count - 1 }
  }
}

function App() {
  const [state, dispatch] = useReducer(reducer, { count: 1 })
  return (
    <div>
      {state.count}
      <button onClick={() => dispatch({ type: 'up' })}>+</button>
      <button onClick={() => dispatch({ type: 'down' })}>-</button>
    </div>
  )
}

useEffect

It is the execution and cleanup of effects, which is represented by the second parameter

useEffect(f)       //  effect (and clean-up) every time
useEffect(f, [])   //  effect (and clean-up) only once in a component's life
useEffect(f, [x])  //  effect (and clean-up) when property x changes in a component's life

function App({ flag }) {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0)
  useEffect(() => {
    document.title = 'count is ' + count
  }, [flag])
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>{count}</h1>
      <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>+</button>
    </div>
  )
}

If it return a function, the function can do cleanups:

useEffect(() => {
  document.title = 'count is ' + count
  return () => {
    store.unsubscribe()
  }
}, [])

useLayout

More like useEffect, but useLayout is sync and blocking UI.

useLayout(() => {
  document.title = 'count is ' + count
}, [flag])

useMemo

useMemo has the same rules as useEffect, but useMemo will return a cached value.

function App() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0)
  const val = useMemo(() => {
    return new Date()
  }, [count])
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>
        {count} - {val}
      </h1>
      <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>+</button>
    </div>
  )
}

useCallback

useCallback is based useMemo, it will return a cached function.

const cb = useCallback(() => {
  console.log('cb was cached')
}, [])

useRef

useRef will return a function or an object.

function App() {
  useEffect(() => {
    console.log(t) // { current:<div>t</div> }
  })
  const t = useRef(null)
  return <div ref={t}>t</div>
}

If it use a function, It can return a cleanup and executes when removed.

function App() {
  const t = useRef((dom) => {
    if (dom) {
      doSomething()
    } else {
      cleanUp()
    }
  })
  return flag && <span ref={t}>I will removed</span>
}

Compare with other frameworks

The comparison is difficult because the roadmap and trade-offs of each framework are different, but we have to do so.

react

React is the source of inspiration for fre. Their implementation and asynchronous rendering are similar. The most amazing thing is concurrent mode, which means that react and fre have the same readmap -- Exploring concurrent use cases.

But at the same time, fre has obvious advantages in reconciliation algorithm and bundle size.

vue / preact

To some extent, Vue and preact are similar. They have similar synchronous rendering, only the API is different.

The reconciliation algorithm of fre is similar to Vue, but the biggest difference is that Vue and preact do not support concurrent mode, this means that the development route is totally different.

framework	concurrent	reconcilation algorithm	bundle size
fre2	√	★★★★	1kb
react17	√	★★	39kb
vue3	×	★★★★★	30kb
preactX	×	★★★★	4kb

License

MIT @yisar

moklick/fre

Fre

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