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0 pointsroywiggins10mo ago0 comments

You can drive an entire Alpine app through a class, which works fine- the class handles all the behavior and the x- tags are mostly wiring up events to methods, and state to visible behavior. But it definitely doesn't take that big an app before you start to get a bit cramped.

I think I'm fond of it because I've never grown to love html-in-js. Sometimes you definitely need that, but for apps that are simple enough that you don't, I find Alpine is just nice to use. No build steps at all, every editor knows how to color html, etc.

It probably shouldn't become a web standard though.

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cluckindan10mo ago

You could get pretty far with a global event handler on the body tag, as most UI events bubble up. Write up an interface for registering sub-handlers from component js files and you get template-behaviour colocation, and any DOM subtree mutation no longer requires event rebinding.

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cluckindan10mo ago

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