Angular Universal vs Pure

Overview

Pure

Stacks36

Followers120

Votes61

Angular Universal

Stacks329

Followers413

Votes36

GitHub Stars99.2K

Forks26.7K

Angular Universal vs Pure: What are the differences?

What is Angular Universal? A technology that renders Angular applications on the server. It executes on the server, generating static application pages that later get bootstrapped on the client. This means that the application generally renders more quickly, giving users a chance to view the application layout before it becomes fully interactive.

What is Pure? A set of small, responsive CSS modules that you can use in every web project. Pure is meant to be a starting point for every website or web app. We take care of all the CSS work that every site needs, without making it look cookie-cutter.

Angular Universal can be classified as a tool in the "JavaScript Framework Components" category, while Pure is grouped under "Front-End Frameworks".

Angular Universal and Pure are both open source tools. Angular Universal with 50.1K GitHub stars and 13.9K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pure with 20.2K GitHub stars and 2.07K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Pure has a broader approval, being mentioned in 7 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Angular Universal, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Pure	Angular Universal
Pure is meant to be a starting point for every website or web app. We take care of all the CSS work that every site needs, without making it look cookie-cutter.	It executes on the server, generating static application pages that later get bootstrapped on the client. This means that the application generally renders more quickly, giving users a chance to view the application layout before it becomes fully interactive.
A responsive grid that can be customized to your needs;A solid base built on Normalize.css to fix cross-browser compatibility issues;Consistently styled buttons that work with <a> and <button> elements;Styles for vertical and horizontal menus, including support for dropdown menus;Useful form alignments that look great on all screen sizes;Various common table styles;An extremely minimalist look that is super-easy to customize;Responsive by default, with a non-responsive option;Easy one-click customization with the Skin Builder;Extremely small file size: 4.5KB minified + gzip	server-side rendering using the Angular CLI; renders more quickly
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 99.2K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 26.7K
Stacks 36	Stacks 329
Followers 120	Followers 413
Votes 61	Votes 36
Pros & Cons
Pros 14 Lightweight 10 Responsive 10 Simple 9 Minimalist 4 Css	Pros 7 Typescript 5 Server rendering and code splitting 5 Complete Framework 4 Same existing code base for both SPA and SSR 4 Static site generator
Integrations
No integrations available	.NET Core PHP

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Foundation

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Semantic UI

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Materialize

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Material-UI

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Blazor

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Quasar Framework

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Nuxt.js

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Angular Universal vs Pure