Octane – React's programming model, compiled

(octanejs.dev)

38 points | by nnx 3 hours ago

8 comments

  • rco8786 24 minutes ago
    > Measured, not vibes

    Sort of ironic considering that there are a LOT of vibe tells in the copy throughout this page. It's a neat looking project, it's a shame that every other sentence has Claude's fingerprints all over it.

    • mcintyre1994 4 minutes ago
      Which is ironic because the author works at OpenAI!
  • aatd86 2 hours ago
    I recognize this comparison style. Definitely generated by Claude. haha
  • xpl 36 minutes ago
    The model is a bit different from React (no deps, hooks can be under ifs) — do coding agents recognize it or they get confused when they see that code?
    • mcintyre1994 1 minute ago
      Their llms.txt spells it all out: https://octanejs.dev/llms.txt

      But it doesn't have the repeating yourself/over-emphasising that you sometimes see in LLM instructions when someone is trying to fight the model's default assumptions

  • mapcars 1 hour ago
    It seems like an attempt to port Svelte's features to React-like api?
  • adithyassekhar 2 hours ago
    It took a while to render when I clicked the Differences from React button on an iphone 17.
    • christophilus 32 minutes ago
      Same. I think it’s just a link, and its content took a while to load. Looks like it’s the docs site vs the marketing page.
  • Tajnymag 2 hours ago
    I'm surprised how good Vue Vapor mode is from the performance comparison table.
    • purerandomness 2 hours ago
      Funny how Vue Vapor 3.6 beta and Ripple 0.3 show the exact same performance (1.0) as Octane, but their bars are a tiny bit longer so the Octane team can pretend to have a justification to put their implementation on top.

      Classic statistics dark pattern.

      • trueadm 1 hour ago
        We just run a script that runs the benchmarks and updates the chart. It’s rounds numbers too. We’ve been as honest as possible in all the benchmarks - there’s no point in lying about a metric.
  • epolanski 1 hour ago
    Interested in experimenting with Octane, wish that docs emphasized more the SSR aspect of it, because I'm looking for a Ruby/Phoenix/Php alternative in TypeScript land, and one with React-like apis would be cool.
    • trueadm 31 minutes ago
      It has all the same SSR APIs as React. The Octane website is rendered with Octane and the source is in the GitHub repository if you’re interested to see how it works
    • atraac 55 minutes ago
      Weren't there RedwoodJs, BlitzJs and few others that did that already?
      • epolanski 21 minutes ago
        Didn't like the apis nor both being built on top of react crap.
  • KoleSeise1277 16 minutes ago
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