Dario Mannu articles - 30 total
Attribute Mixins: a functional alternative to Directives
We come from streams-oriented programming. Nothing new, just functional/reactive programming...
Apple M1+ web developers are cheating. You should do that, too
Web development in certain communities (E.G.: React, Next, Angular) nearly reached the level of bloat...
Properly improper FRP: Time as a discrete function of events
Ancient Roman emperors used to frivolously take the freedom to define what time is and when it...
Observables, Signals, Callforwards: 3 ways to manage reactive state
Two opposite approaches dominate the scene when we talk about reactive patterns for the UI in...
Web Components made ()=>functional
Whether you're just getting started with web components or looking for easier ways (=less code, zero...
How to build the perfect article about JavaScript in 2025 (sarcastic)
guys, it's simple. There is a little-known playbook for this, so please stop getting this wrong or...
A Chrome Killer for Productivity
Your #1 productivity killer may lay inside the very tool you use most often: Chrome. It's been like...
Arrays made Observable: a convenient approach to UI rendering
Rendering a list to the DOM and managing its state is a different pair of shoes than managing the...
Streams Oriented Programming: an introduction
If your app is all made of reactive streams plugged to the DOM by your framework, it's a great...
From callbacks to "callforwards": a stupidly simple approach to reactivity
Back in the middle ages we had callbacks in Node.js and UI interfaces were hardly reactive. Remember...
WICG Observables, RxJS v7, v8 and the Observable that doesn't exist yet
A lot of interesting things are happening right now. RxJS 7 rocks, RxJS 8 is in alpha, it appears to...
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Drag'n'Drop. Functional. 20 lines, 1 Collection, 1 Mixin.
Many UI libraries and CSS frameworks used to enable special functionality by resorting to CSS classes...
Event Adapters: splitting UI events from data models
If you want to improve the overall quality of your code, you may want to keep your data models neatly...
Getting rid of "lifecycle hooks"
Nearly every JavaScript UI library &/| framework I've seen has some sort of lifecycle hooks:...
Do you think Signals suck?
This is a continuation of Do you think Observables Suck? I never managed to swallow Signals, Hooks,...
Vanilla JS is unscalable. Here is why
If you played with modern vanilla JS, whether you advocate it or oppose it surely you've come across...
Do you think Observables suck?
If you landed here, I bet it's because of one of the following: You're watching what's happening...
Rendering "glitches" in reactive programming
Rendering glitches are a bit like the reactive world's version of the race condition where some...
Lit vs Rimmel - OOP vs FRP tagged templates
Lit and Rimmel are some relatively similar libraries as they both make use of tagged...
Did you get functional/reactive wrong?
You think you learnt functional-reactive JavaScript on some online tutorial? You might actually have...
HTML templates vs the IO Monad
Can an HTML template be thought of a Monad, somehow? Maybe the IO Monad in particular? const...
Attribute mixins and no side-effects
I told RimmelGPT.js about 10 times that a Rimmel.js mixin doesn't take the host element as a...
Imperative-reactive vs functional-reactive: can you tell the difference?
If you worked with frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, SOLID, Svelte, you're already familiar with...
Array.sort() vs Array.toSorted() performance: which one is faster?
In an effort to free the world from side effects, it comes natural to think about Array.toSorted()...
How my custom GPT taught me how to use my own library!
Ok, so, little disclosure to start, I created a little functional-reactive templating library for...
The "last mile" of functional-reactive web development
Telecommunication services have historically been made difficult by the last mile problem: the...
Async Mixins with Rimmel.js
Rimmel.js is all about convenience. If you want to extend components with any extra functionality...
Signals & Hooks vs Observables
In recent years, a particular pattern has emerged to manage reactive user interfaces in...
Build a reactive flipboard display with RxJS and Rimmel.js
This is my take on @maxime1992's challenge for a functional-reactive split-flap display. For a...