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Starting to sprinkle JavaScript with Simulus

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+title: Starting to sprinkle JavaScript with Simulus
+date: 2024-03-28
+permalink: archive/2024/03/28/starting-to-sprinkle-javascript-with-simulus
+tags:
+    - software-development
+    - symfony
+    - stimulus
+cta: ~
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+    Have you used Stimulus? I took it for a test drivet this week.
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+I've been watching the new "Cosmic Coding with Symfony 7" series on SymfonyCasts, and today's video was about Stimulus - a "modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have".
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+As I'm comfortable with other frameworks, such as Vue.js and Alpine.js, I've usually skipped videos about Stimulus, but today, it caught my eye.
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+I was intrigued by it and experimented with it by refactoring a component from a project I am working on.
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+I like the organisation Stimulus provides by using JavaScript classes and controllers while keeping things simple in the HTML code.
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+I initially did this in Fractal but then created [an example project][repo] using Stimulus with esbuild. It's now on my GitHub profile and includes other tools such as Nix, just, and Tmuxinator.
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+After this short evaluation, I like Stimulus and will use it on other components in this project, maybe using third-party Stimulus controllers - either directly or for inspiration.
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+Hat tip to Ryan Weaver and SymfonyCasts for showing Stimulus and Nick Janetakis for showing me esbuild.
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+[repo]: https://github.com/opdavies/stimulus-esbuild-example