Flight vs React: What are the differences?
What is Flight? A component-based, event-driven JavaScript framework from Twitter. Flight is distinct from existing frameworks in that it doesn't prescribe or provide any particular approach to rendering or providing data to a web application. It's agnostic to how requests are routed, which templating language you use or even if you render your HTML on the client or the server. While some web frameworks encourage developers to arrange their code around a prescribed model layer, Flight is organized around the existing DOM model with functionality mapped directly to DOM nodes.
What is React? A JavaScript library for building user interfaces. 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.
Flight and React can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Flight and React are both open source tools. It seems that React with 132K GitHub stars and 24.5K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Flight with 6.64K GitHub stars and 588 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, React has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3223 company stacks & 3085 developers stacks; compared to Flight, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.