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Ampersand.js vs KnockoutJS: What are the differences?
What is Ampersand.js? A highly modular, loosely coupled, non-frameworky framework for building advanced JavaScript apps. We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple and solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. We wanted something similar in style and philosophy, but that fully embraced tiny modules, npm, and browserify. Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules.
What is KnockoutJS? Knockout makes it easier to create rich, responsive UIs with JavaScript. Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (a modern variant of MVC) library that makes it easier to create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML. It uses observers to make your UI automatically stay in sync with an underlying data model, along with a powerful and extensible set of declarative bindings to enable productive development.
Ampersand.js and KnockoutJS can be categorized as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.
Ampersand.js and KnockoutJS are both open source tools. KnockoutJS with 9.54K GitHub stars and 1.54K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ampersand.js with 818 GitHub stars and 52 GitHub forks.
Pros of Ampersand.js
- Open source5
- Micromodules4
- CommonJS3
- npm3
- Loosely Coupled3
- non-frameworky2
- Integrates well with anything2
- Great Community2
- Powerful2
- Free2
- Simple2
- JavaScript1
Pros of Knockout
- Data centered application3
- Great for validations2
- Open source1