Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework

LukeB42 30 points 19 comments March 01, 2026
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Vertex is a 1kloc SPA framework containing everything you need from React, Ractive-Load and jQuery while still being jQuery-compatible. vertex.js is a single, self-contained file with no build step and no dependencies. Also exhibits the curious quality of being faster than over a decade of engineering at Facebook in some cases: https://files.catbox.moe/sqei0d.png

Discussion Highlights (5 comments)

DiabloD3

I was going to say that font is unreadable, but its Courier New. By my own extensive testing[1], it's optimal at minimum 18px, you're at 13.5px. [1]: https://github.com/Diablo-D3/dotfiles/blob/master/fontsizes....

6r17

1kloc is a bit abstract ; it seems you are in a great position to give a true bundled weight ; preact is about 3kb which is my fav for years - good job for the effort and results !

jaen

Huh, interesting... why have both React components and Mustache-style templates in the same framework? They perform the same function? What's the use case for mixing them?

hirako2000

A bit surprised to see a new framework boasting to ship as UMD. Are developers still using commonjs? I'm sure some continue to CDN inject libraries. But even then ESM is well supported.

karmakaze

Annoyingly there's already a framework called Vert.x for JVM but there's also Vert.x Node.js

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