Overview

AngularJS

Stacks61.5K

Followers44.5K

Votes5.3K

GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

Durandal

Stacks31

Followers36

Votes20

GitHub Stars1.7K

Forks371

AngularJS vs Durandal: What are the differences?

AngularJS vs. Durandal

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1. **Architecture**: AngularJS is a JavaScript framework while Durandal is a JavaScript library focused on making Single Page Applications (SPAs). AngularJS follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture, whereas Durandal follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture.
2. **Data Binding**: AngularJS uses two-way data binding by keeping the model and view in sync automatically. In contrast, Durandal implements one-way data binding, which can improve performance by reducing the overhead of constantly syncing the model and view.
3. **Routing**: AngularJS provides built-in routing capabilities for creating SPAs, allowing developers to define routes and views. On the other hand, Durandal offers a more flexible routing mechanism with its Durandal Router plugin, enabling dynamic loading of modules/views.
4. **Performance**: AngularJS may encounter performance issues when handling a large number of data bindings due to its two-way binding approach. In comparison, Durandal's one-way data binding can lead to better performance in scenarios with a high volume of data updates.
5. **Modularity**: AngularJS has a built-in dependency injection system, making it easy to create modular components and manage dependencies. Durandal also supports modularity through its component-based architecture, allowing developers to build and reuse components efficiently.
6. **Community Support**: AngularJS has a larger community and ecosystem with extensive documentation, resources, and plugins available. While Durandal has a smaller community, it offers a more concise and focused approach to creating SPAs.

In Summary, AngularJS and Durandal differ in architecture, data binding, routing, performance, modularity, and community support, each catering to specific needs in developing Single Page Applications.

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Advice on AngularJS, Durandal

Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

@{Nuxt.js}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
@{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
@{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
@{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
@{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
@{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
@{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
@{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.

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John Clifford

Software Engineer at CircleYY

Jun 8, 2020

Decided

I used React not just because it is more popular than Angular. But the declarative and composition it gives out of the box is fascinating and React.js is just a very small UI library and you can build anything on top of it.

Composing components is the strongest asset of React for me as it can breakdown your application into smaller pieces which makes it easy to reuse and scale.

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José

Head of Engineering & Development at Chiper

Jun 23, 2020

Decided

It is a very versatile library that provides great development speed. Although, with a bad organization, maintaining projects can be a disaster. With a good architecture, this does not happen.

Angular is obviously powerful and robust. I do not rule it out for any future application, in fact with the arrival of micro frontends and cross-functional teams I think it could be useful. However, if I have to build a stack from scratch again, I'm left with react.

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Detailed Comparison

AngularJS	Durandal
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.	Durandal is a cross-device, cross-platform client framework written in JS and designed to make Single Page Applications (SPAs) easy to create and maintain.
-	JS & HTML modularity; Simple app lifecycle; Eventing, modals, message boxes, etc; Navigation & screen state management;Consistent async programming w/ promises; App bundling and optimization; Use any backend technology; Built on top of jQuery, Knockout & requireJS; Integrates with popular CSS libraries such as Bootstrap and Foundation; Make your own templatable and data-bindable widgets; Fully testable
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 1.7K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 371
Stacks 61.5K	Stacks 31
Followers 44.5K	Followers 36
Votes 5.3K	Votes 20
Pros & Cons
Pros 889 Quick to develop 589 Great mvc 573 Powerful 520 Restful 505 Backed by google Cons 12 Complex 4 Dependency injection 3 Event Listener Overload 2 Hard to learn 2 Learning Curve	Pros 3 UI components 3 Easy to learn 2 Open source 2 Works IE8 > 2 Easy to start
Integrations
JavaScript	Bootstrap Foundation

What are some alternatives to AngularJS, Durandal?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

React

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.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

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.

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.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Angular

It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

Aurelia

Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.