Some ideas for API enhancement

[brody4hire]

• Use something like the Factory_method_pattern to enable people to write JavaScript without the need for new keyword.
• Something similar to tmpvar / weld to enable people to write HTML without the need for special template syntax
• API similar to marko-js / marko

In general I really like the idea of this project and would like to thank @nolanlawson for tweeting it.

[emirotin]

+1 for factory, would be nice to make new optional and also easy to achieve

[Rich-Harris]

It's easy enough to make new optional but is there a good reason to do so? By adding the instanceof check at the start of every component, you've added extra bytes to everyone's application for the sake of allowing developers to write code that's actually less idiomatic. (With ES2015 classes, you have to use new, so over time new-less instantiation is going to seem ever more weird and out of place). Not to mention that it's a redundant check for nested components.

If it's purely to prevent errors, then maybe a development warning would be a better approach.

@brodybits do you have specific API suggestions? 'Make it like these other projects' isn't something we can work with, unless it's clear what you mean and why it would be an improvement 😀