What is Espresso.js?
Espresso.js is a tiny MVC framework inspired by Backbone and React with a focus on simplicity and speed. We've aimed to bring the ideas of unidirectional data flow of Flux to a simple, Backbone-style library.
Espresso.js is a tool in the Javascript MVC Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Espresso.js is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Espresso.js's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Espresso.js?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use Espresso.js in their tech stacks, including immowelt GmbH, Business Insider, and Be-Addy.
Developers
10 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Espresso.js.
Espresso.js Integrations
Espresso.js's Features
- tiny, less than 500 lines and 3kb gzipped
- zero dependencies
- performance and memory focused
- does not aim to support anything below IE10, but may work on older browsers using a shim
Espresso.js Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Espresso.js?
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.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
Backbone.js
Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.
Angular
It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.
Ember.js
A JavaScript framework that does all of the heavy lifting that you'd normally have to do by hand. There are tasks that are common to every web app; It does those things for you, so you can focus on building killer features and UI.