Backdraft

a JavaScript library for building browser-hosted user interfaces

• employs a familiar, frugal, and powerful API that includes declarative composition as well as traditional type specialization.
• small--about 2000 lines of pure, modern JavaScript
• faster than almost all and as fast as any component-construction library
• no compilation step required
• zero external dependencies in the library code
• FreeBSD licensed

Website

Backdraft is extensively documented at backdraftjs.org

Install

Note: master is under dev; if you want a working version, use npm.

With npm:

npm install bd-core

With yarn:

yarn add bd-core

With bower:

bower install --save bd-core

For more details see http://backdraftjs.org/install.html

Production Code

The Backdraft library makes no judgement about how you condition your code for production. Further, the library was designed from the ground up to avoid the need for extra code (and, therefore, complexity) in a "development" version. Therefore, simply include Backdraft in your build as if it was your own code; there is nothing more to it than that.

Documentation

Tutorial

Reference Manual

Blog

Examples

The GitHub repo altoviso/backdraft-examples includes several examples including all tutorial code, the todomvc example, and the js-framework-benchmark example.

Tests

To run the tests, start a http server that can serve the project directory and navigate to

http:///bd-core/node_modules/bd-smoke/smoke-runner.html

Support

If you have a usage question, please open an issue on stackoverflow; please tag the question with "backdraft".

If you've found a bug, please open an issue in this repository. Your chances of getting attention are much higher if you provide a reproducible test case.

You may also request an enhancement by opening an issue. Again, your chances of getting that enhancement incorporated into future releases are much higher if you provide a pull request with a test.

Commercial Support

Commercial support and program design and construction services are available from ALTOVISO LLC. You may email requests to [email protected] or contact us directly at 925.229.0667 8:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M., Pacific Time Zone.