What is Riot?
Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.
Riot is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Riot is an open source tool with 14.8K GitHub stars and 967 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Riot's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Riot?
Companies
47 companies reportedly use Riot in their tech stacks, including Labs, League of Legends, and Medtronic.
Developers
55 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Riot.
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Riot's Features
- Absolutely the smallest possible amount of DOM updates and reflows.
- One way data flow: updates and unmounts are propagated downwards from parent to children.
- Expressions are pre-compiled and cached for high performance.
- Lifecycle events for more control.
Riot Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Riot?
Mattermost
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Discord
Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.
Slack
Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
