React.js Boilerplate vs Blazejs: What are the differences?

Developers describe React.js Boilerplate as "🔥 Quick setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js apps". Quick setup for new performance orientated, offline–first React.js applications featuring Redux, hot–reloading, PostCSS, react-router, ServiceWorker, AppCache, FontFaceObserver and Mocha. On the other hand, Blazejs is detailed as "*Powerful library for creating user interfaces *". It is a powerful library for creating user interfaces by writing reactive HTML templates. Compared to using a combination of traditional templates and jQuery, it eliminates the need for all the “update logic” in your app that listens for data changes and manipulates the DOM.

React.js Boilerplate and Blazejs can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by React.js Boilerplate are:

• Using react-transform-hmr, your changes in the CSS and JS get reflected in the app instantly without refreshing the page. That means that the current application state persists even when you change something in the underlying code! For a very good explanation and demo, watch Dan Abramov himself talking about it at react-europe.
• Redux is a much better implementation of a flux–like, unidirectional data flow. Redux makes actions composable, reduces the boilerplate code and makes hot–reloading possible in the first place. For a good overview of redux, check out the talk linked above or the official documentation!
• Babel is a modular JavaScript transpiler that helps to use next generation JavaScript and more, like transformation for JSX, hot loading, error catching etc. Babel has a solid ecosystem of offical preset and plugins.

On the other hand, Blazejs provides the following key features:

• Create user interfaces
• Compiles template files into JavaScript code
• Provides a compiler toolchain

React.js Boilerplate and Blazejs are both open source tools. It seems that React.js Boilerplate with 23.2K GitHub stars and 4.69K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Blazejs with 438 GitHub stars and 89 GitHub forks.