Famo.us is now open source

We participated in the private beta and wrote up a simple (I hope) post of the basics of developing a Famo.us app here - <a href="http://blog.percolatestudio.com/engineering/the-future-of-javascript-animation-with-famous/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.percolatestudio.com&#x2F;engineering&#x2F;the-future-of-ja...</a><p>The closed nature of their &#x27;open source&#x27; project can be frustrating at times. Having said that and despite all the hype, famo.us is sitting in a pretty unique position in the html mobile web scene and frankly I&#x27;m more excited about it than any of the alternatives (sencha, jquery mobile, etc).<p>It&#x27;s early days, I wouldn&#x27;t write it off yet...

I hate to be &quot;that guy,&quot; but what is Famous? <a href="http://famo.us" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;famo.us</a> doesn&#x27;t say anything on the index, and the About page is broken. Is it just a library? Toolchain? A real product?

The about section of the website is completely blank for me in the latest firefox. The docs and the guides pages on famo.us redirect me to a login page. Am I missing something?

Great news! But the fact that their own website is broken on Safari on iOS7 doesn&#x27;t give me much hope that this is easy to develop for <a href="http://famo.us/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;famo.us&#x2F;</a>

It is about time. I&#x27;ve been looking forward to trying out Famo.us&#x27; Javascript engine to see what all of the hype was about and how they were achieving those remarkable benchmark scores on mobile. I am going to dig into the code tonight and find out what makes it really tick. Fantastic and exciting.

It’s very interesting to see this being announced now. The space of “native-to-the-web”-frameworks is very noisy lately. I wonder which moves the other developers of frameworks, especially in regards to Web3D games, will make next: Artillery? Goo Technologies? Scirra? Ludei? PlayCanvas? Impact? ...?<p>There is quite a bunch of free engines already out there: Babylon.js, Copperlicht, CubicVR, TheeJS, ...<p>The native engine builders: Epic, Crytek and Unity are also adding some more pressure on the game sector in this field with their announcements to also move into the web and alter their price schemes.

I like Famous but there is so much buzz around it. ThreeJS had CSS and SVG rendered before they even started.<p>Some projects, thanks to VCs gets too much marketing that put main players under their shadows. MeteorJS is the same.

Glad to see this out. I&#x27;ve been waiting on famo.us to become available for quite a while now. Exciting stuff.<p>Now, where is the documentation? The readme from the repo points to a docs folder that does not exist, and links to the online versions of documentation lead me to login-only pages... registering only puts me in line for access.

Such a strange &quot;launch&quot; presentation; 3d is an obvious center piece and 40 minutes in, zero real demonstrations of the actual tech. No, the simple examples in &quot;famo.us school&quot; don&#x27;t count. It looked similar jquery easing.<p>No visuals, just a bunch of beta devs talking about how great everything looks..

Is there anywhere to actually get a real demo of this product? Something that isn&#x27;t a WebGL tech demo, but an actual example of an actual app written using this?

A lot of the links from the repo README are broken or in an invite-only area. The main docs I&#x27;ve seen are the markdown guides here:<p><a href="https://github.com/Famous/guides" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Famous&#x2F;guides</a><p>The biggest disappointment is what seems like less-than-rock-solid desktop browser support. Support for iOS and Android only with &quot;Broader support for more browsers is coming&quot;?? (After all the discussion of not releasing until everything is rock solid?) I noticed it with some of the initial demos that didn&#x27;t allow you to rotate the element chart using your mouse, but it worked fine on an iPad. For all the talk of 3d, I don&#x27;t see anything on par with a three.js in the source.<p>Seems like React + a physics engine...

The dynamics of which technologies find longevity on the front page is always intriguing. Erlang&#x2F;OTP 17 was top for a short while, this random javascript framework hitting the top?<p>How is this more useful than a language&#x2F;platform rev?

More demos are at: <a href="http://demo.famo.us/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.famo.us&#x2F;</a><p>Facebook Paper: <a href="http://demo.famo.us/paper/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.famo.us&#x2F;paper&#x2F;</a><p>Yahoo Weather: <a href="http://disrupt.famo.us/1022e61cbff3fe1fc382a81a2d6e2396078a6731e64a1da228ac1ac32a609ed1bbdfecaebd0a123a20e202c39ce607778a89fa91763100a3fa24520bf5e8f758/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;disrupt.famo.us&#x2F;1022e61cbff3fe1fc382a81a2d6e2396078a6...</a><p>Rise: <a href="http://demo.famo.us/rise/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.famo.us&#x2F;rise&#x2F;</a>

Famo.us announced two things at the launch event tonight:<p>- github repo is now public<p>- they&#x27;re letting in the first 75k devs to famo.us community website tonight<p>The first 75k devs will get 3 invites.<p>The website contains what they&#x27;re calling Famo.us University. Tutorials, forums, IRC, etc.<p>The explanation for letting in 75k devs at a time is to not overwhelm the community with new devs. They want to be responsive to the first batch and train them so the first batch can support other batches. It&#x27;s pretty brilliant community management and a sane approach to being able to actually deliver on the hype over time.

Do we have more details on what is famo.us? It says &quot;opinionated approach&quot;.. How does it compare to ionicframework.com for instance?

Er, fail? No examples still at link given, and About page also blank, as others mentioned. Would like to try this, but not sure I want to invest the time without seeing some working examples first...

How frustrating is the registration + queue to read the docs =(

for those unclear, the countdown is just for their University, forum etc. The code itself is all out there. Clone the repo, init and update the submodules, and go!<p>They also have a yeoman generator<p><a href="https://github.com/Famous/generator-famous" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Famous&#x2F;generator-famous</a>

I&#x27;ve been stuck at position 79992 for the past 10 minutes ... I just want to see the docs and guides!

The render tree document is pretty interesting <a href="https://github.com/Famous/guides/blob/master/dev/2014-04-09-render-tree.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Famous&#x2F;guides&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;dev&#x2F;2014-04-09-...</a>

Beepe was built in famous:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beepe-phone/hcfncmkiaffeiicmpkaajdibigffgnfc?hl=en-US" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chrome.google.com&#x2F;webstore&#x2F;detail&#x2F;beepe-phone&#x2F;hcfncm...</a>

I can&#x27;t seem to get paste the fact that the UX seems confusing to me...<p>A lot of progressbars for animation also don&#x27;t include visual feedback (except a number changing).

Seriously Javascript? Pretty much everything is broken, try submitting on the register page without any fields ... the bad request is not handled :P

Can someone explain why this is better than threejs?

Launch video from tonight<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmQMVjCVZBo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=YmQMVjCVZBo</a>

Seriously, check out the demos, <a href="http://demo.famo.us/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.famo.us&#x2F;</a>. Pretty impressive.

Anyone know why the text is so blurry in Chrome?

Wow! The demos are just bloody mindblowing

<i>&gt; Small examples of using each component are available at examples repo</i><p>The link gives a 404.

Why is there a line for material that is openly accessible in github? This seems stupid.<p>All their audience are developers who can basically get it off of github.