Mador
Shares rank 14 of 24 JavaScript libraries by recommenders
People recommend Mador as a tiny, zero-dependency reactive state tool built on Proxies that works with plain nested objects. Critics mention a weird presentation and verbose syntax.
People recommend Mador as a tiny, zero-dependency reactive state tool built on Proxies that works with plain nested objects. Critics mention a weird presentation and verbose syntax.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Tiny zero-dependency Proxy-based reactivity
“Using Proxies for state management without the heavy overhead of large frameworks is really elegant.”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple” “The result is Mador: a tiny ~80-line reactive state tuple”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple” “clean, zero-dependency reactivity”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple” Smart idea that standardizes things
“It’s a very smart idea though, I like it.”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple” “its a good way to standardize”
Comment from 7 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Weird presentation
“Good learning experience but a very weird presentation.”
Comment from 6 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple”
Other JavaScript libraries people recommend
The four most recommended other JavaScript libraries, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| jQuery | 111 | 48 | 70% | 12 | 16 yrs8 owners | Approved |
| Picknplace.js | 58 | 26 | 69% | 1 | — | — |
| Alpine.js | 50 | 16 | 76% | 11 | 1 yr4 owners | Approved |
| Effect (TypeScript library) | 38 | 16 | 70% | 10 | 2 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| MadorThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
11 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“its a good way to standardize”
“ESM is how it's done now. If you don't like it, build it yourself to some other format.”
“I love projects like these that try to make working with the web easier with minimal tools.”
“The syntax looks a bit too verbose for me.”
“Using Proxies for state management without the heavy overhead of large frameworks is really elegant.”
“It’s a very smart idea though, I like it.”
“Mador is specifically about dropping in a plain, nested object and working with it like normal JS”
“Good learning experience but a very weird presentation.”
“The result is Mador: a tiny ~80-line reactive state tuple”
“And it turned out to be quite nice as I may say so”
“clean, zero-dependency reactivity”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.