Artisanal Framework Design (OrganicJS announcement)

They say beauty is simplicity.

In fact, there is a computational theory of beauty that relies on this axiom.

When you think about front end frameworks that are supposed to produce beauty and you see incredibly over-designed ones like EXT-JS, AngularJS or EmberJS you start to wonder how Beauty can emerge from such stale mess of ideas, patterns and assumptions.

That’s why I’ve always wanted to build my own frameworks, ones that comply with my own somewhat mature intellectual desires and artistic temptations, but also ones that are a little twisted by unconventional wisdom, wrapped in deep thought and vested in the idea that code is art and creative insight is what front end developers need not a super complex framework.

As to Backbone, KnockOut etc, I have no idea why someone would want to put the backend middleware ideas on the front end, a place where we need to start fresh and not from assumptions made for the backend.

So all there is for us is to make our own artisanal frameworks, made to our needs but universally applicable with active morphing and adaptation. After all, why settle for stale ideas when we can have ideas that grow?

With that note, I give you my attempt in this regard, OrganicJS:

http://javacrypt.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/announcing-organicjs/