Arvados

Semi-random collection o' links:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=mithril.js%2C%20angular%202%2C%20angular%201%2C%20%2Fm%2F012l1vxv%2C%20%2Fm%2F0j45p7w&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B4

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10836236
https://medium.com/@l1ambda/mithril-vs-angular-vs-react-d0d659c24bae#.nn40nfsm0
http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs (old)
https://auth0.com/blog/2016/01/07/more-benchmarks-virtual-dom-vs-angular-12-vs-mithril-js-vs-the-rest/
https://www.quora.com/Which-should-I-learn-Mithril-Vue-or-Angular
http://mithril.js.org/comparison.html
http://vuejs.org/guide/comparison.html

There are two contenders.

• Mithril has technical advantages (speed, simplicity).
• React has a bigger community.

My goals here are:

• Efficiently testable, maintainable code.
• Fast (virtual DOM → fast-responding application → enjoyable user experience).
• Views are functions, written in a programming language. (They return virtual DOM elements -- it doesn't help to write them as HTML templates.)
• Possibility of pre-rendering on server side (e.g., using V8).

Advantages of Mithril:

• Components are just objects -- they aren't tied to some framework class or magic initialization procedure. Better for testing.
• Good concise vdom syntax: m('.row', m('.col-md-12', 'foo bar'))
• Fast
• Small

Disadvantages of Mithril:

• 1.0 (rewrite) isn't done yet. https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/blob/rewrite/README.md

https://github.com/reactjs/redux looks worthwhile. https://egghead.io/courses/getting-started-with-redux

http://polythene.js.org/ is an interesting alternative to the obvious mithril+bootstrap approach.