Retaliate
A lightweight React-like UI library with a custom virtual DOM, component lifecycle, and JSX transpilation via esbuild — built to understand how frameworks work under the hood.
Year
2025
Stack
Javascriptes-build
A lightweight implementation of React's core features including Virtual DOM and Fiber Architecture.
Features
- JSX support through esbuild transpilation
- Virtual DOM implementation
- Fiber-based reconciliation
- Incremental rendering with requestIdleCallback
- Efficient diffing algorithm
- Development server with hot reload
- Production build support
Limitations
- No state management system
- No side-effects handling (like React's useEffect)
- Limited event handling
- No component lifecycle methods
Future improvements will focus on implementing these features while maintaining the lightweight nature of the library.