Oversimplifying things is not an advantage

1 · Evan You · Nov. 4, 2013, 11:31 a.m.
I seriously thought Riot.js was a parody making fun of all the gazillions of MV* frameworks out there. Turns out it is not — obviously they are pretty serious and published a lengthy blog post discussing how awesome their framework is compared to other popular ones. I guess anyone would be intrigued by how much they can do with just 1kb of code. But does it really hold up to the claims? I quickly checked out the source code and its TodoMVC implementation. Well, you probably already know my concl...