Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI credit mithril and it’s fantastic community of knowledgeable devs with really changing my learning style at the outset of my dev career. Essentially from learning by reading, and becoming overwhelmed (as is often reported in the js world), to learning by doing and using technology. I’m sure this happens to many other people through different routes but I personally experienced it through this community. Seeing people so actively discuss things with new users and the amount of other general…
We shipped a very major product (300 person company) on Mithril.js a few years back when React was young and Angular was the go-to in this space. We had a fairly positive experience, but ran into enough problems here and there with vdom rendering bugs that we eventually decided to rewrite the entire product 4 years later in React. Certainly, it did was it was supposed to very well, until we really pushed it to its limits with vdoms that…
SPA - single page applications SSR - server side rendering
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 354
- Total comments
- 151
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-30 | Why mithril.js being fastest and minimalist is yet not famous like vue or react? | provlem | 4 | 0 |
| 2018-08-17 | Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript frameworkFirst breakout · Best thread | dammitfoo | 209 | 78 |
| 2019-12-05 | Mithril Is a Modern JavaScript Framework for Building Single Page Applications | thunderbong | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-01-16 | Alternative lightweight UI library to modern day frameworksLatest 20+ point return | turblety | 137 | 72 |
| 2022-07-15 | Mithril.js | ilrwbwrkhv | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-08-03 | Mithril – Light-weight SPA without SSR | synergy20 | 1 | 1 |