Blazejs vs Select2

Overview

Blazejs

Stacks16

Followers11

Votes0

GitHub Stars538

Forks115

Select2

Stacks3.0K

Followers73

Votes0

GitHub Stars26.0K

Forks6.2K

Select2 vs Blazejs: What are the differences?

Select2: The jQuery replacement for select boxes. It gives you a customizable select box with support for searching, tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrolling, and many other highly used options. It comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in; Blazejs: *Powerful library for creating user interfaces *. 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.

Select2 and Blazejs belong to "Javascript UI Libraries" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Select2 are:

comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in
Using AJAX you can efficiently search large lists of items
Fully skinnable, CSS built with Sass and an optional theme for Bootstrap 3

On the other hand, Blazejs provides the following key features:

Create user interfaces
Compiles template files into JavaScript code
Provides a compiler toolchain

Select2 and Blazejs are both open source tools. It seems that Select2 with 23.9K GitHub stars and 5.68K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Blazejs with 437 GitHub stars and 89 GitHub forks.

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Abigail

Dec 6, 2019

Decided

We chose React on the advice of the Meteor Development Group, which acts as our upstream technical advisors. We had a prior investment in BlazeJS, due to it's optimistic UI, latency compensation, and real-time updates. However, the BlazeJS code wasn't composable and didn't lead to good reuse, as it was already overly abstracted. It also carried with it a lot of baggage from the default HTML DOM. We have enjoyed React's functional components, deterministic rendering, testability, composability, and widespread support. It's taken some time to get used to, but fits in very well with a functional programming style. We had also taken a look at AngularJS components, but they were always half-baked in comparison to the active React community.

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Abigail

Dec 10, 2019

Decided

React was a very contentious decision among the Meteor community. We started off with Blazejs, which itself was based off of Handlebars. We liked the HTML-like syntax of Blaze and how nurses, doctors, and other clinicians could become familiar with it. However, the code wasn't very reusable and it was neither modular nor composeable nor testable, and became a major headache to maintain. React solves the problems of composeability and reusability and testing isolation, at the price of having worked the problem backwards and having wound up with a quirky syntax that runs within Javascript that looks similar to HTML but isn't. Nonetheless, React is quickly become a classic example of functional programming techniques, what with its' pure components. All in all, an enjoyable technology to work with that brings some sanity to front-end user interfaces.

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Detailed Comparison

Blazejs	Select2
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.	It gives you a customizable select box with support for searching, tagging, remote data sets, infinite scrolling, and many other highly used options. It comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in.
Create user interfaces ;Compiles template files into JavaScript code ; Provides a compiler toolchain	comes with support for RTL environments, searching with diacritics and over 40 languages built-in;Using AJAX you can efficiently search large lists of items;Fully skinnable, CSS built with Sass and an optional theme for Bootstrap 3
Statistics
GitHub Stars 538	GitHub Stars 26.0K
GitHub Forks 115	GitHub Forks 6.2K
Stacks 16	Stacks 3.0K
Followers 11	Followers 73
Votes 0	Votes 0
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What are some alternatives to Blazejs, Select2?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

React

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.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.

Riot

Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.

Marko

Marko is a really fast and lightweight HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to readable Node.js-compatible JavaScript modules, and it works on the server and in the browser. It supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.