petite-vue: An Alpine alternative for progressive enhancement

petite-vue is a lightweight alternative to Vue, designed for progressive enhancement by enabling small interactions on HTML pages rendered by server frameworks, without the need for build tooling. It offers a minimalistic approach with a bundle size of only 6.9 kB, making it ideal for quick prototyping and adding Vue functionality to server-rendered frameworks like Sails, Laravel, or Rails. The framework maintains compatibility with Vue's template syntax and reactivity via the @vue/reactivity package, while forgoing features like the virtual DOM and certain Vue-exclusive components to stay lightweight. Unlike Alpine, which inspired its creation, petite-vue does not include a transition system and is more aligned with Vue's structure, facilitating ease of transition between the two. Its unique features include directives like v-scope for defining controlled page regions, v-effect for inline reactive statements, and lifecycle events to manage component mounting. Despite its newness and potential for bugs, petite-vue is seen as a functional tool with strong potential, especially for developers familiar with Vue seeking to enhance server-rendered pages with minimal overhead.