Overview

AngularJS

Stacks61.8K

Followers44.5K

Votes5.3K

GitHub Stars59.0K

Forks27.3K

three.js

Stacks760

Followers530

Votes0

GitHub Stars109.2K

Forks36.1K

AngularJS vs three.js: What are the differences?

Introduction

Here is a comparison between AngularJS and three.js, highlighting the key differences between the two.

Language and Purpose: AngularJS is a JavaScript-based framework used for building web applications, whereas three.js is a JavaScript library used for creating 3D computer graphics in a web browser. AngularJS focuses on managing the structure and behavior of an application, while three.js focuses on rendering 3D graphics.
Development Approach: AngularJS follows a declarative approach, where developers define the desired end result and AngularJS takes care of the rest. On the other hand, three.js follows an imperative approach, where developers have more control over the creation and manipulation of 3D objects.
Application Scope: AngularJS is mainly used for building single-page applications (SPAs) where content is dynamically loaded and updated without the need for page refresh. Conversely, three.js is used for creating more immersive and interactive web experiences, especially in the context of 3D graphics and virtual reality (VR) applications.
Component-based vs Object-oriented: AngularJS is a component-based framework, which means it encourages building applications by breaking them down into reusable components. On the other hand, three.js is an object-oriented library, where 3D objects are created as instances of predefined classes, allowing for more flexibility and customization.
Learning Curve: AngularJS has a steeper learning curve compared to three.js due to its complex concepts and features like directives, services, and dependency injection. On the other hand, three.js has a relatively easier learning curve for developers familiar with JavaScript and 3D graphics concepts.
Community Support and Ecosystem: AngularJS has a larger and more mature community with extensive documentation, tutorials, and resources available. It also has a vast ecosystem with a wide range of third-party libraries and tools. In comparison, three.js has a smaller community, but it is growing steadily and has its own set of resources and extensions.

In summary, AngularJS and three.js differ in their purpose and focus, development approach, application scope, architectural style, learning curve, and community support and ecosystem.

Advice on AngularJS, three.js

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 consisting of Vue CLI, Vue Router, vuex, Webpack and Sass (Bundler for HTML5, CSS 3), Babel (Transpiler for JavaScript),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed Vue.js components
Vuetify as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
TypeScript as programming language
Apollo / GraphQL (incl. GraphiQL) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
ESLint, TSLint and Prettier for coding style and code analyzes
Jest as testing framework
Google Fonts and Font Awesome for typography and icon toolkit
NativeScript-Vue 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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Comments

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	three.js
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.	It is a cross-browser JavaScript library and Application Programming Interface used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 59.0K	GitHub Stars 109.2K
GitHub Forks 27.3K	GitHub Forks 36.1K
Stacks 61.8K	Stacks 760
Followers 44.5K	Followers 530
Votes 5.3K	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 889 Quick to develop 589 Great mvc 573 Powerful 520 Restful 505 Backed by google Cons 12 Complex 3 Event Listener Overload 3 Dependency injection 2 Hard to learn 2 Learning Curve	No community feedback yet
Integrations
JavaScript	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to AngularJS, three.js?

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.