Learn Glamorous, Riot and Xstream

glamorous

Glamorous works great with whatever CSS framework you’re currently using. In this lesson we’ll see how to make glamorous integrate with your existing CSS solution so you can migrate overtime.

Use glamorous with existing CSS

Cycle.js is a framework where your app is described as a simple function taking an event stream as input and outputting an event stream.

cycle

This lesson is the first in an introduction to Cycle.js. We will see how to build from scratch a toy version of Cycle.js. See how to use RxJS to create simple web apps, and how to separate logic from effects.

Separate Logic from Effects in Cycle.js

Riot brings custom tags to all modern browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.

riot

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

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.

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

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

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.

Riot JS - Repeating Elements with Each Attribute

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react

In this lesson we’ll learn about the things you need installed and setup to start writing React components with glamorous.

Install glamorous to start styling React components

There are a few things you may be used to doing in CSS that you’ll need to learn how to accomplish using CSS in JS (in particular with glamor and glamorous). In this lesson we’ll go through a few examples.

Write CSS in JS with glamorous

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

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.

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