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hyperscript

An async-transparent scripting langauge for the web
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What is hyperscript?

It is an experimental scripting language designed for the web, inspired by HyperTalk. Its core feature is the ability to embed event handlers directly on HTML elements.
hyperscript is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
hyperscript is an open source tool with 3.2K GitHub stars and 151 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to hyperscript's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses hyperscript?

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Developers
6 developers on StackShare have stated that they use hyperscript.

hyperscript Integrations

hyperscript's Features

  • Clean, inline embedding on HTML elements
  • Events as first class citizens, with tools for responding to and sending events, including event-driven control flow
  • DOM-oriented syntax, such as CSS id, CSS class and CSS query literals
  • First class web workers
  • An async-transparent runtime, which removes the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous code
  • A pluggable & extendable parser & grammar
  • A debugger to step through hyperscript code

hyperscript Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to hyperscript?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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