Live, reactive templating
Ractive.js is a template-driven UI library that transforms your templates, styles and logic into blueprints for highly interactive apps.
Powerful and extensible
Components, Two-way binding, scoped CSS, SVG support, animations and much more provided out-of-the-box. And you can easily extend functionality even further with the use of plugins.
Optimised for your sanity
Ractive.js works for you, not the other way around. You do not need to learn new terminologies, concepts, and methodologies. And it plays well with libraries you already know and like to use.
About Ractive.js
Ractive was originally created at The Guardian theguardian.com to produce news applications. A typical news app is heavily interactive, combines HTML and SVG, and is developed under extreme deadline pressure. It has to work reliably across browsers, and perform well even on mobile devices.
Unlike other frameworks, Ractive works for you, not the other way around. It doesn't have an opinion about the other tools you want to use with it. It also adapts to the approach you want to take. You're not locked-in to a framework-specific way of thinking. Should you hate one of your tools for some reason, you can easily swap it out for another and move on with life.
This project is the brainchild of an Englishman and has contributors from all over the world. There is an eclectic mix of primarily the Queen's English, a fair amount of 'Murican English, and a bit of others here and there. Things like "adaptor", "behaviour", and "dependant" may have more than one spelling but we try to stick to the Queen's English to the extent that we are able.
Fun fact: The name is a reference to Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer – a book about (among other things) the future of storytelling.
Downloads
# jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ractive
# CDNjs
https://cdnjs.com/libraries/ractive
# unpkg
https://unpkg.com/ractive
# npm
npm install --save-dev ractive
# Bower
bower install --save ractive