Overview

React

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GitHub Stars240.3K

Forks49.7K

Blazejs

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Followers11

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GitHub Stars538

Forks115

Blazejs vs React: What are the differences?

Introduction

When deciding between BlazeJS and React for your web development needs, it's important to understand the key differences between the two. Below are six specific distinctions that can help guide your decision-making process.

Virtual DOM handling: React uses a virtual DOM, which is a lightweight representation of the actual DOM, allowing it to efficiently update the UI when changes occur. BlazeJS, on the other hand, directly manipulates the DOM, potentially leading to performance issues as the complexity of the web application grows.
Component architecture: React's component-based architecture promotes reusability and maintainability by breaking down the UI into small, encapsulated components that manage their own state. BlazeJS, although also component-based, lacks the robustness and flexibility of React's implementation.
State management: React provides a clear and efficient way to manage state through components, enabling predictable and more manageable application behavior. In contrast, BlazeJS relies heavily on template helpers and session variables for state management, which can become cumbersome and difficult to maintain in larger applications.
Server-side rendering: React excels at server-side rendering, allowing for faster initial page loads and improved SEO. BlazeJS, while capable of server-side rendering, does not provide the same level of performance optimization out of the box.
Community support: React boasts a large and active community with extensive documentation, tutorials, and third-party libraries available. BlazeJS, on the other hand, has a smaller and less dynamic community, which may limit the resources and support available for developers.
Learning curve: React's declarative approach to building UIs can initially be challenging for beginners, but once understood, it offers a more efficient and robust way to create complex web applications. BlazeJS, with its more imperative style of coding, may be easier for newcomers to grasp but could lead to less maintainable code in the long run.

In Summary, understanding the differences in virtual DOM handling, component architecture, state management, server-side rendering, community support, and learning curve can help developers make an informed decision between BlazeJS and React for their web development projects.

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Advice on React, Blazejs

Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs adviceon

Vue.js

React

I find using Vue.js to be easier (more concise / less boilerplate) and more intuitive than writing React. However, there are a lot more readily available React components that I can just plug into my projects. I'm debating whether to use Vue.js or React for an upcoming project that I'm going to use to help teach a friend how to build an interactive frontend. Which would you recommend I use?

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Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

@{Nuxt.js}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
@{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
@{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
@{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
@{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
@{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
@{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
@{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.

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Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs advice

Simple datepickers are cumbersome. For such a simple data input, I feel like it takes far too much effort. Ideally, the native input[type="date"] would just work like it does on FF and Chrome, but Safari and Edge don't handle it properly. So I'm left either having a diverging experience based on the browser or I need to choose a library to implement a datepicker since users aren't good at inputing formatted strings.

For React alone there are tons of examples to use https://reactjsexample.com/tag/date/. And then of course there's the bootstrap datepicker (https://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), jQueryUI calendar picker, https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr, and many more.

How do you recommend going about handling date and time inputs? And then there's always moment.js, but I've observed some users getting stuck when presented with a blank text field. I'm curious to hear what's worked well for people...

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Detailed Comparison

React	Blazejs
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.	It is a powerful library for creating user interfaces by writing reactive HTML templates. Compared to using a combination of traditional templates and jQuery, it eliminates the need for all the “update logic” in your app that listens for data changes and manipulates the DOM.
Declarative; Component-based; Learn once, write anywhere	Create user interfaces ;Compiles template files into JavaScript code ; Provides a compiler toolchain
Statistics
GitHub Stars 240.3K	GitHub Stars 538
GitHub Forks 49.7K	GitHub Forks 115
Stacks 182.6K	Stacks 16
Followers 147.0K	Followers 11
Votes 4.1K	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 837 Components 674 Virtual dom 579 Performance 509 Simplicity 442 Composable Cons 41 Requires discipline to keep architecture organized 30 No predefined way to structure your app 29 Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages 13 JSX 10 Not enterprise friendly	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	JavaScript Zepto jQuery HTML5

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