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Bendik Aagaard LynghaugandClaude Fable 5 ce1ec9e4a9 rebrand: buuh — a friendly public fork under the uhhm org
Packages renamed to the @uhhm scope (@uhhm/buuh, @uhhm/buuh-html,
@uhhm/buuh-component, @uhhm/buuh-devtools, @uhhm/buuh-migrate,
@uhhm/bankai). Scoping is load-bearing twice over: npm routes registries
per scope so @uhhm/* resolves against project.uhhm.no while everything
else stays on npmjs, and it means this fork never squats upstream's
names anywhere. The codemod now migrates choo v7 apps to the @uhhm
names. README rewritten with the fork framing and full upstream credit;
the choojs RFC moves to docs/upstream-rfc-draft.md, in the drawer for if
this work ever goes home. API unchanged — choo() is still choo().

Also: Gitea Actions CI + release workflows (npm publish to the uhhm
registry on tag push, CDN bundle uploaded as a generic package),
npm run bundle producing dist-cdn/buuh.js (the whole framework as one
minified ES module for import-map use), docs/publishing.md explaining
what Gitea Packages is (a real npm registry) and is not (a CDN — serve
the bundle from a static host with module-safe MIME instead), and
onload.js constructing window.MutationObserver to match its own guard
(surfaced by smoke-testing the bundle outside a full browser).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014NgfSjHE11oFpoSnLVKLXd
2026-09-08 19:55:20 +02:00

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# RFC: choo v8 — same soul, modern engine
> Draft, to be posted as an issue on choojs/choo. Placeholders in
> [brackets]. Tone check before posting: continuation, not correction.
---
Hi everyone — long-time choo user, org member, still shipping things
with it. I'd like to propose (and have prototyped) a v8.
**The short version:** choo's design aged beautifully. The toolchain
around it didn't — browserify, the nanohtml transform, Babel 6, Travis.
v8 keeps the API and the philosophy and replaces every dead dependency
with either the platform or ~300 lines we own. I've built the whole
thing on a branch to make this a concrete conversation rather than a
wishlist: **[link to v8 branch]**.
## What stays exactly the same
The 7-line counter is still the 7-line counter. `choo()`, stores,
`emit`, tagged template views, morphing re-renders, `toString()` on the
server. `choo()` still works without `new`. A codemod
(`npx @choojs/migrate`) moves v7 apps across — validated against this
repo's own example app.
## What changes
- **ESM only, Node ≥ 24, Baseline browsers. Zero compile steps.** The
nanohtml browserify transform is replaced by a runtime template cache
(parse once per call site, clone per render — the µhtml technique,
adapted to our morph-based model). Consequence: **you can develop a
choo app with an import map and view-source**, no tooling at all.
- **Twelve packages become six.** nanobus/nanorouter/nanohref/nanotiming
fold into `@choojs/core` as attributed ports; nanoquery/nanoraf/
nanoassert retire to the platform. Smaller maintenance surface is the
point — single-maintainer fatigue is what stalled v7, and I don't want
to rebuild that failure mode.
- **SSR grows up: `toStream()`.** Web-standard `ReadableStream`,
progressive flushing through async template holes, `state.prefetch`
for store data, and hydration that *adopts* server DOM and warns on
real mismatches. Answers the async-route question too — #653 finally
gets both halves: `lazy(() => import('./view.js'))` in the browser,
awaited by `toStream` on the server.
- **bankai v10** — same one-command soul, rebuilt as a thin shell over
Vite 8/Rolldown. Only the client bundles (v8 server code runs
as-authored — no server build to rot). 103 Early Hints replace the
HTTP/2 push story, `style.css`/`sw.js` conventions replace sheetify
and the env-var service-worker dance, `--prerender` and `--h2`
included.
- **The size claim, honestly restated.** v7 said 4kb for choo alone
(templates compiled away by the transform). v8's *entire* framework —
core + html engine + morph + hydration — is 7.97 kB min+gzip
/ 7.15 kB brotli, enforced by CI. Apples-to-apples it's smaller;
the README now says the true number.
Numbers, tests, and the full decision log live on the branch:
109 unit tests (the v7 suite among them, behavior preserved) + 7
Playwright tests in real Chromium covering hydration, streaming, and
bankai dev/prod. Also fixed along the way: the non-ASCII/`%` URL
crashes (routing now parses with WHATWG URL, decodes once, and
NFC-normalizes).
## What I'm asking
1. **@yoshuawuyts** — a blessing costs one emoji and would mean a lot.
Zero obligation beyond that; the credits already say what this
builds on.
2. **@pirxpilot** — your ESM fork line is the only living continuation
of this code and v8's core started from that groundwork. I'd love to
co-maintain rather than fork-in-parallel; either way, thank you.
3. **npm publish rights** for `choo`, `bankai`, and the nano*
packages, or a nod to ship under `@choojs/*` with the old names as
deprecation pointers after 8.0.0 exists (nothing gets deprecated
before then; master and v7 stay untouched).
4. **API feedback**, especially: `lazy()` wrapper vs thenable route
handlers; the `state.prefetch` contract; anything in the migration
doc that reads as a betrayal rather than an upgrade.
**Comment window: three weeks from posting.** After that I'll take
silence as consent, keep working on the v8 branch in the open, and cut
pre-releases under a `next` tag. If this lands wrong for anyone, say so
— the plan bends.
🚂🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋