I stumbled across Cycle.js a few weeks ago. I like the idea, but the examples still seemed a little clumsy. I would like something similar, but a little more

I stumbled across Cycle.js a few weeks ago. I like the idea, but the examples still seemed a little clumsy. I would like something similar, but a little more opinionated, with some shortcuts for booting up a simple project that sprinkles some "magic markup" in an existing page to drive a backend event handler / mapper-reducer function.