Riot.js is a tiny "React-like" micro-library. It is relatively easy to learn because of its simple syntax. While riot is small, it is complete and delivers a ton of functionality in its itty bitty footprint.

Getting started with Riot JS. We'll discuss riot's compile and mount process and build a small hello world component with simple data-binding.

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Riot JS - Getting Started with this React-like micro-library

Tag Options allow you to abstract your custom tag elements into reusable objects by allowing the tag-user to specify the dynamic parameters of their component.

Riot JS - Tag Options

Every tag in Riot has a lifecycle. I'll explore the three hooks: mount, update, and unmount while adding an animation feature for an existing tag. Lifecycle hooks are important for setting up, tearing down, and keeping a tag's view up to date after external logic is run.

Riot JS - Tag Life Cycle Hooks

Riot can listen for raw dom events on any element by adding the on* attribute to elements and referencing an event handler. Let's walk through a couple examples.

Riot JS - DOM Events

Riot takes a 'keep your styles close' approach with custom tags. You are encouraged to place your styles for a tags element right inline with the html and javascript. Learn how riot parses the inline styles as well as ways to keep your styles from bleeding out to the rest of your app. Scoped styles provide great isolation for your custom tag. Use the class attribute's special binding syntax to easily add and remove a class based on an expression.

Riot JS - Scoped CSS and Toggled Classes

It's easy to repeat over a collection and render many elements. Riot works very similar to Angular and has various syntaxes for it's each attribute. We'll look at the typical syntax for arrays, a shortened syntax, and an object key/value syntax.

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Joel Hooks

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