Show HN: Handcrafted HTML-first framework that outperforms React

Category: web-framework

Tags: web-components, html-first, javascript-framework, no-build

Score: 4.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 5, Documentation: 3, Utility: 4)

Places.js is an HTML-first JavaScript framework using enhanced web components and renderer-agnostic stores, with no build step required. It claims performance advantages over React, Svelte, Lit, and Vue, but the evidence and documentation provided are minimal and the benchmarks appear externally hosted rather than independently verified.

Target audience: frontend devs

Repository: https://codeberg.org/createthirdplaces/places-js

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