Introduction

Welcome to the Mayu documentation!

This is all work in progress. Contributions are welcome.

Check out the README if you haven’t!

What is Mayu?

Mayu is a live streaming server side component-based VirtualDOM rendering framework written in Ruby.

Mayu has a server side Virtual DOM. Virtual DOMs are usually made for browsers, while Mayu runs everything on server and streams DOM-patches to the browser runtime.

The browser runtime is pretty small and split into modules so that the most important parts are loaded first, and the less important parts are loaded asynchronously.

By running the application on a server, you eliminate the need for an API for your frontend application. You can communicate to your database or other services directly from within your callback handlers.

By deploying the application on a server near your users, latency should be low enough for interactive elements to appear like they update instantly. MDN: How long is too long?