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Chaplin vs Mithril: What are the differences?
Chaplin: HTML5 application architecture using Backbone.js. Chaplin addresses Backbone’s limitations by providing a lightweight and flexible structure that features well-proven design patterns and best practices. Chaplin empowers you to quickly develop scalable single-page web applications; allowing you to focus on designing and developing the underlying functionality in your web application; Mithril: Client-side MVC framework - a tool to organize code in a way that is easy to think about and to maintain. Mithril is around 12kb gzipped thanks to its small, focused, API. It provides a templating engine with a virtual DOM diff implementation for performant rendering, utilities for high-level modelling via functional composition, as well as support for routing and componentization.
Chaplin and Mithril belong to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack.
Chaplin and Mithril are both open source tools. Mithril with 11.3K GitHub stars and 863 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Chaplin with 2.92K GitHub stars and 247 GitHub forks.
Pros of Chaplin
- Scalable2
- Application architecture2
- Quickly develop1
Pros of Mithril
- Lightweight16
- Faster than React12
- Pure JavaScript10
- Virtual Dom10
- Robust8
- Unopinionated7
- Works with ES67
- Very active development6
- Intelligent auto-redrawing system5
- Flux compatible3
- Small Learning Curve2
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Cons of Chaplin
Cons of Mithril
- Virtual Dom1