The API discussion

[gadicc]

Some concerns have been expressed that the famous-views API is too complicated, and that after learning to use both Meteor and Famous you now need to learn a third, complex API.

Would love more feedback on this.

The goal of famous-views is to be super quick, easy & concise, just like Meteor. Using famous-views should feel like you're coding famous "meteor-style".

You can see example API usage in the pads at:
https://fview-lab2.meteor.com/gadicc

[timfam]

Well FV is way simpler than doing pure vanila famous/meteor app and that is the yardstick by which it must be judged. It might seem overwhelming learning the new famous.org and FV at same time but hey this is what it means to be cutting edge. It is simple enough the people complaining mind giving specific areas that can be made simpler?

[CEOGavin]

Famous and Meteor are not your everyday frameworks (I agree with @timfam). To use Meteor in it's purest form, I believe one MUST use famous-views to use Famous. Of course you can bypass Blaze entirely but then that would be hacky! If you am building something serious and extensive, then you want to do it RIGHT.

I only started using Javascript seriously from February this year. To be honest, it has been an uphill task for me learning Meteor, Famous and Famous Views (still getting a hang of them all). But I would definitely not take the easy way out, just for the following reasons -

1. The V (view) has to be separate from everything else. I love that FV allows me to do that.
2. I know how frustrating it is to work with spaghetti code (I come from PHP).
3. As it is I am learning Meteor and Famous
4. FV is not that complicated once you start using it.

By the way, a big thank you to you @gadicc for fview-lab2 examples (in addition to FV)! It's a huge help for someone like me. I hope you keep adding new examples just like you currently are doing. It makes learning FV a walk in the park