PixieDust
Declarative Incremental User Interface Rendering Through Static Dependency Tracking
Nick ten Veen (Student TU Delft)
Daco C Harkes (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Eelco Visser (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
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Abstract
Modern web applications are interactive. Reactive programming languages and libraries are the state-of-the-art approach for declaratively specifying these interactive applications. However, programs written with these approaches contain error-prone boilerplate code for efficiency reasons. In this paper we present PixieDust, a declarative user-interface language for browser-based applications. PixieDust uses static dependency analysis to incrementally update a browser-DOM at run- time, without boilerplate code. We demonstrate that applications in PixieDust contain less boilerplate code than state-of-the-art approaches, while achieving on-par performance.
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