Ratchet vs SwiftUI

Overview

Ratchet

Stacks23

Followers36

Votes1

GitHub Stars14.6K

Forks1.4K

SwiftUI

Stacks590

Followers567

Votes6

Ratchet vs SwiftUI: What are the differences?

Developers describe Ratchet as "Build mobile apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JS components". Made by the creators of Twitter Bootstrap, Ratchet is a library that allows you to build mobile apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JS components. On the other hand, SwiftUI is detailed as "Build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with Swift". Provides views, controls, and layout structures for declaring your app's user interface. The framework provides event handlers for delivering taps, gestures, and other types of input to your app.

Ratchet and SwiftUI belong to "Mobile UI Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

Ratchet is an open source tool with 14.4K GitHub stars and 1.52K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Ratchet's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Ratchet	SwiftUI
Made by the creators of Twitter Bootstrap, Ratchet is a library that allows you to build mobile apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JS components.	Provides views, controls, and layout structures for declaring your app's user interface. The framework provides event handlers for delivering taps, gestures, and other types of input to your app.
-	Declarative Syntax; Design Tools; Drag and drop; Dynamic replacement; Previews; Native on All Apple Platforms; Generate dynamic, interactive previews of your custom views; Define interactions from taps, clicks, and swipes to fine-grained gestures; Control and respond to the flow of data and changes within your app’s models; Integrate SwiftUI views into existing apps, and embed AppKit, UIKit, and WatchKit views and controllers into SwiftUI view hierarchies; Present your content onscreen and handle user interactions
Statistics
GitHub Stars 14.6K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 1.4K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 23	Stacks 590
Followers 36	Followers 567
Votes 1	Votes 6
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Minimal	Pros 2 XCode Canvas feature 2 Live previews 2 Smaller Scalable views
Integrations
No integrations available	macOS Swift Xcode

What are some alternatives to Ratchet, SwiftUI?

Weex

Weex renders code in native widgets in Android & iOS and helps preserve the quality of user experience on critical platforms.

React Native Material Design

An open source project which aims to bring Material Design to Android through React Native by Facebook. The library is made up of many components, which can be found in the sidebar.

ComponentKit

ComponentKit is an Objective-C++ view framework for iOS that is heavily inspired by React. It takes a functional, declarative approach to building UI. It was built to power Facebook's News Feed and is now used throughout the Facebook iOS app.

jQuery Mobile

jQuery Mobile is a HTML5-based user interface system designed to make responsive web sites and apps that are accessible on all smartphone, tablet and desktop devices.

React Native Paper

Material design for React Native.

CoreRender

React-inspired Swift library for writing UIKit UIs.

Reagent

It allows you to define efficient React components using nothing but plain ClojureScript functions and data, that describe your UI using a Hiccup-like syntax.

react-native-ui-kitten

react-native-ui-kitten is a framework that contains a set of commonly used UI components styled in a similar way. The main idea of this framework is to move style definitions into a specific place making components reusable and styled in a single way. You just focus on business logic and it takes care of visual appearance.

Classy

Not CSS. Instead of trying to force UIKit to fit CSS syntax, properties, conventions and constructs. Classy is a stylesheet system built from the ground up to work in harmony with UIKit. It borrows the best ideas from CSS and introduces new syntax, conventions and constructs where appropriate.