# RetroV RetroV (pronounced "retro vee") is a virtual DOM (VDOM) rendering library. It is browser-native and has no dependencies or build system. It's tiny: **1129 bytes** (the usual minified gzipped metric). Read more on the World Wide Web here: http://ratfactor.com/retrov/ ## Installation ## Example Here's a quick glimpse (a whole web page!): For more examples and fairly complete **tutorial**, take a look at at `demo.html` in this repo or see it live here: http://ratfactor.com/retrov/demo.html You can also run the test suite `test.html` or run it live: http://ratfactor.com/retrov/test.html ## Updates! * Raw verbatim HTML string nodes now update when they've changed. * Added 'rvid' special property. See demo.html for demo/documentation. * Added Crockford's jsmin.c to do minifying with no external dependencies. ## Why? I couldn't find anything exactly like it. Lots of bits and pieces I liked, but not this exact thing. ## Inspiration [.dom](https://github.com/wavesoft/dot-dom/) - Full hyperscript and DOM diff in 512 bytes! A direct inspiration. In fact, I was originally going to fork this and change it to suit my preferences until I decided to go in a radically different direction for VNode creation. [Mithril](https://github.com/MithrilJS/mithril.js/) - My old favorite, still getting updates. This is how I learned these practices and it's the standard by which I judge them. [ijk](https://github.com/lukejacksonn/ijk) - DOM without the 'h()' function - pure JS data structures. I _think_ I'd seen this concept before, but maybe not. At any rate, this has heavily influenced RetroV. This library is for transforming data, not rendering. Super compact code!