RiotJS lets you keep the "normal" HTML and just add easily-called functions. Looks much more simple and "normal" to me than all this react stuff and HTML generation from javascript.
Riot is great, I'm one of the contributors also. Just like to experiment with things and created FRZR, RZR and now this. The main issue with Riot is, that it's still rather slow. And complex, if you want to understand 100% how it works under the hood.
>The main issue with Riot is, that it's still rather slow..
Riot is fantastic, especially in anticipation of web components, but personally I don't see performance as the main issue; I'm willing to trade performance for syntax I like, and the areas where Riot tends to choke are generally on tasks I typically wouldn't ask of client-side JS, no matter how fast it was.
It's the lack of certain critical features that kills it for me. The biggest one is that is has no Vue-style transition system for "if" and "show" -- there are plugins that do it strictly for mount and unmount. It's an outstanding question in #1858, though it might be outside the scope of Riot core, TBH.
In any case, I moved to Vue for that reason, and like it a lot, though I'd still prefer a Riot-with-easy-transitions :)
