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0 pointssimonw3mo ago0 comments

The biggest value I got from JustHTML here was the API design.

I think that represents the bulk of the human work that went into JustHTML - it's really nice, and lifting that directly is the thing that let me build my library almost hands-off and end up with a good result.

Without that I would have had to think a whole lot more about what I was doing here!

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orange_puff3mo ago

Do you mind elaborating? By API design, do you mean how they structured their classes, methods, etc. or something else?

simonwOP3mo ago

I mean the design of the user-facing API: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/blob/main/docs/api...

See also the demo app I vibe-coded against their library here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/justhtml - that's what initially convinced me that the API design was good.

I particularly liked the design of JustHTML's core DOM node: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/blob/main/docs/api... - and the design of the streaming API: https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml/blob/main/docs/api...

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