Riot is an incredibly fast and powerful yet tiny client side library for building large scale web applications. Despite the small size all the building blocks are there: a template engine, router, event library and a strict MVP pattern to keep things organized. On a finished application your views are automatically updated when the underlying model changes.
Current frameworks base their existence on false assumptions.
- There's a big mass of common problems
- MVC (or MVP) requires a framework
- jQuery leads to spaghetti
These are simply not true.
Current applications could be faster, simpler and smaller. They could be maintained with less people, less knowledge, and less worries.
Riot is a manifesto for vanilla JavaScript and jQuery.
Official release (v1.0) April 2014 • Follow the progress on Facebook
Official website • Building modular applications with Riot.js • Demo application • Original blog post