Mithril demonstration.

devices.js

var m = require('mithril');
var devices = {};

devices.controller = function() {
    let url = "http://localhost:8989/devices";
    return {
        devices: m.request({method: "GET", url: url }),
        remove: function(name) {
            return m.request({ method: "DELETE", url: `${url}/${name}` });
        }
    };
};

function table_header(schema) {
    function th(item) {
        return m('th', item.title || '');
    }
    return m('thead', [
        m('tr', schema.map(th))
    ]);
}

function table_body(schema, items) {
    function tr(item) {
        return m('tr', schema.map(s => s.td(item)));
    }
    return m('tbody', items.map(tr));
}

function table(schema, items) {
    return [
        m('table.table.table-condensed.table-stripped', [
            table_header(schema),
            table_body(schema, items)
        ])
    ];
}

function prop(k) {
    return function(obj) {
        return obj[k];
    };
}

function compose(a, b) {
    return function(item) {
        return b(a(item));
    };
}

function td(n) { return m('td', n); }

devices.view = function(ctrl) {
    function remove_button(item) {
        let btn = m("a.btn.btn-danger.btn-xs", {
            onclick: function() {
                ctrl.remove(item.Name);
                return false;
            }
        }, 'Remove');
        return m('td', btn);
    }
    var schema = [
        { title: 'Name', td: compose(prop('Name'), td) },
        { title: 'Protocol', td: compose(compose(prop('Protocol'), prop('Name')), td) },
        { title: 'IP', td: compose(prop('IP'), td) },
        { title: 'Port', td: compose(prop('Port'), td) },
        { title: '', td: remove_button }
    ];
    return table(schema, ctrl.devices());
};

module.exports = devices;

form.js

let m = require('mithril'),
u = require('../utils/utils.js');

var form = {};

form.controller = function() {
    var values = {
        Name: m.prop('name'),
        Protocol: m.prop('protocol'),
        IP: m.prop('ip'),
        Port: m.prop('port')
    };
    return {
        values: values,
        save: function() {
            console.log(`values: ${JSON.stringify(values)}`);
            return m.request({
                method: 'POST',
                url: 'http://localhost:8989/devices',
                data: values
            });
        },
        cancel: function() {
            values({
                Name: 'name',
                Protocol: 'protocol',
                IP: 'ip',
                Port: 'port'
            });
        }
    };
};

function i(label, type, value) {
    return m('div.form-group',
             m('label', label),
             m('input', {type: type, class: 'form-control', onchange: m.withAttr('value', value), value: value() })
            );
}

form.view = function(ctrl) {
    return [
        m('form', [
            i('Name', 'text', ctrl.values.Name),
            i('Protocol', 'text', ctrl.values.Protocol),
            i('IP', 'text', ctrl.values.IP),
            i('Port', 'text', ctrl.values.Port),
            m('button.btn.btn-primary', {type: 'button', onclick: ctrl.save }, 'Save'),
            m('button.btn.btn-default', {onclick: ctrl.cancel}, 'Cancel') 
        ])
    ];
};

module.exports = form;

It is amazing what you can do without all the "big framework's" infrastructure. May be the right way to do it? Or maybe ther is something not necessary?