Have you tried React.js (from Facebook). I haven't tried it but have read 
good things. Supposedly somewhat similar to Ractive. Also seems to be more 
active (Ractive has had no commits for a month and seems to have limited 
user group activity).

Anthony

On Sunday, June 15, 2014 9:39:21 AM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote:
>
> I was sincerely impressed with how many things you can do with Angular, 
> but the learning curve is too steep.
> Then I tried knockout...much better in terms of learning curve, and its 
> methods to map json objects (resultsets) with view-models couples nicely 
> with web2py.....but the templating lacks too much and is a tad bit verbose.
> Then I tried ractive, and I had a serious headache to figure out how to do 
> "basic tasks" : to be fair, I asked a question on their google-group and 
> got an answer pretty soon: unfortunately the solution was there but the 
> docs weren't updated yet (that's why I had a hard time with it). 
> It seems that the ractive "concept" is closer to my mindset, i.e. it's the 
> tool I'd use to solve "problems" I can't solve with web2py alone, so it 
> "adds" a good value given the effort spent.
> That being said, there's a whole new concept to adapt to with all of them: 
> your project starts to be python + html and then is python+html+js, with 
> matters like "how do I organize js code within my app", "let's use 
> requirejs" and so on...it's not that easy to adapt if you're coming from 
> python web frameworks.
>
> On Sunday, June 15, 2014 10:34:25 AM UTC+2, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
>>
>> Often Angular comes up on this list. I tried it and I was un-impressed. 
>> Instead today my favorite client-side stack is based on these:
>>
>> - jquery.js
>> - sugar.js
>> - ractive.js
>> - semantic-ui (css & js)
>>
>> Have you tried sugar, ractive, and semantic-ui? What is your opinion?
>>
>> Massimo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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