Minimal RawJS Project

This repository demonstrates a minimal RawJS project setup. You can clone this repository in order to get a good starting point for a front-end project using RawJS.

The project demonstrates basic app development and project organization using RawJS, hierarchial routing with support for back and forward buttons (via Rawter), vite as the build server, and a code-workspace configured for debugging. Be sure to open the code-workspace file into VS code in order to get step debugging to work.

Online Demo

The demo project is basic CSS color viewer. You can see an online demo of the project at https://rawjssample.pages.dev

Trade-offs

These are the limitations you need to accept with this project structure:

• You have to use TypeScript (duh)
• You have to be disciplined to only use dependencies that are published on jsdelivr (npm install programmers need to clean up their act)

These are the advantages you gain:

• Efficient one-class-per file project structure
• No import dumpster at the top of each file. Forget imports even existed. Just access whatever you want, wherever you want. TypeScript knows where to find it.
• TypeScript namespaces provide arguably better encapsulation than ES modules.
• No bundler, no build system. Near-zero complexity.
• TypeScript builds your app in milliseconds, even if your app gets huge.