rosszurowski

I did! I actually forgot about that feature when making the parent comment. It was a useful addition to a degree.

I used it for more complicated components like a mobile nav with animations, and for some re-usable pieces like a subscribe form. The downside with Alpine.data is that it splits the HTML from the JS, so developing and refactoring was a bit of a pain, and caused errors because of old variables I accidentally left in the HTML (whereas Preact/TSX would give me an in-editor error).

It also didn't really mitigate the need to wire up all the pieces your data component exposes into an HTML correctly. Though, this was working inside a simple PHP-based templating engine — maybe one that supports better snippets with parameters would make that part of the experience better.

I'm glad alternatives like Alpine exist for small sites that don't need many additional behaviours. But having used Alpine for a medium-sized art gallery website last year, I can't really recommend it for anything larger than a very simple site. The fact that all your code is scattered as strings everywhere without error checking or types makes it really hard to debug and work with long-term.

For lightweight front-end tooling, nothing has unseated the ease of Preact for me.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!