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We're currently using Mithril and one of the biggest issues was getting started in it. It's adoption is lacking, making finding people who've had similar issues difficult. Solving every problem yourself is much harder than finding an existing answer on SO.

That said, we still use it, but we're considering moving to React in the future, mostly since its learning curve is a lot less steep and we would be able to iterate faster.

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Have you tried the mithril.js gitter channel[1]? It's sort of the de-facto go-to-place for mithril questions; there are lots of active users there who are willing to help you out

You can also drop me a line via email, and I'd be happy to help too.

[1](https://gitter.im/lhorie/mithril.js)

While domvm [1] is young and doesn't have the adoption of Mithril (not even within an order of magnitude), it does solve many issues that people frequently have with Mithril's architecture and magic. Check it out if you'd like. Disclaimer: I'm the author and 1.0 (stable) target is April 1st.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm

You might wanna rethink that target date (April Fool's Day).

It's a half-joke date. I'm the only dev and there's still a crapload of docs and tests to write. If I can't hit it, then at least I have a good April Fools joke prepared :)

The project, however, is quite serious.

I'm curious what difficult issues you encountered. I've been using Mithril for a relatively simple SPA and it's been straightforward so far.

Truthfully, my knowledge is second hand. I haven't spent a ton of time with it, my coworker is the one who had issues learning it. I've spent a little time with it, and haven't had the same issues he ran into.

I think the issue comes from the learning curve between jQuery and Mithril. Coming to Mithril from React I'd imagine would be relatively easy, where coming to it from JS spaghetti would be rough due to the lack of adoption and step-by-step tutorials that exist compared to React.

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