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This has been discussed before. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653024

A massive discussion between Backbone.js developer and the developer of Riot.js kicked off. It's an interesting read that's for sure.

You can find the library here https://github.com/moot/riotjs



Oh, so they wrote their own framework but the site doesn't use a framework.. now I get it.


The blogpost explains why they didn't use an off-the-shelf framework. (Spoiler: "We wanted control.")

That they can generalize their homebrew abstractions into a new framework only shows that they didn't use an off-the-shelf framework.




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