itsy is an "itsy-bitsy to-do app" that is mostly an experiment in learning to live without
bundles and package managers and reaching for a library every time I needed something.
You'll notice that there's not even a package.json in the project.
You can run itsy without installing any node modules. It uses npx to launch a Web Dev
Server locally, but then is
completely self-contained. It uses ES6
modules to import
code as needed. This approach is surprisngly well supported across all browsers.
./scripts/start.shThe hand-built libraries include two kinds of Web Components that can be extended. One handles basic properties and rendering while the other connects to a Redux-like state management store (also hand-built). It was informative to dig into existing libraries like Lit and Zustand to grok the basic concepts and then implement them as simply as possible.
Yeah, same thing for tests. Again, it uses npx to launch Web Test
Runner. The test runner dependencies (really
just the assertion library) are all local. It was equally surprising how simple an
assertion library really is when you don't need syntax like expect(x).to.deep.equal(y).
./scripts/test.sh