# luwes/sinuous

🧬 Light, fast, reactive UI library

Repository: https://github.com/luwes/sinuous
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sinuous
Homepage: https://sinuous.netlify.app
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Topics: reactive, hyperscript, dom, javascript, ui, functional, sinuous
Last push: 2024-03-16T06:07:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2706, "days_push": 900, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1064, forks 34 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:26.610720+00:00)

## What it is
Sinuous is a tiny (~1.4kB gzip), fast, reactive UI library for JavaScript that uses fine-grained DOM operations and observables for automatic view updates. It requires no compile step and supports views written in tagged template literals or hyperscript (h) function calls.

## Use cases
- build reactive UI widgets and embeds with a tiny bundle size
- create web app components without a build step
- render performant lists with fine-grained DOM updates
- hydrate pre-rendered static HTML into reactive views
- write declarative UI views in plain JavaScript with tagged templates

## When to choose
- you need an extremely small bundle for embeds, widgets, or components
- you want reactive UI updates without a compiler or build tooling
- performance matters and you want fine-grained DOM updates comparable to Solid or Svelte
- you prefer plain JavaScript over JSX and component frameworks

## When to avoid
- you need a full-featured framework with routing, forms, and a large ecosystem
- your team relies on JSX and mature tooling like React or Vue
- you need long-term support guarantees - the project has no license file in the repo metadata and modest community size
- you want extensive official add-ons and enterprise-grade documentation

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: frontend-framework, ui-components, state-management
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: reactive-ui, fine-grained-reactivity, hyperscript, tagged-template-literals, tiny-bundle, no-build-step, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- luwes/sinuous (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:26.610720+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:56:05.306140+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/luwes/sinuous (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:26.610720+00:00, sha a9e0bc2cebb6)
  - homepage: https://sinuous.netlify.app (fetched 2026-08-29T12:57:48.448464+00:00, sha f52720884f30)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/sinuous (fetched 2026-08-29T12:57:48.457832+00:00, sha 8bf1ac5597c9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.