Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Closure Library vs Zepto: What are the differences?
What is Closure Library? Google's common JavaScript library. Closure Library is a powerful, low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. It is used by many Google web applications, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google+, Google Maps, and others.
What is Zepto? Minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers, with a jQuery-compatible API. While 100% jQuery coverage is not a design goal, the APIs provided match their jQuery counterparts. The goal is to have a ~5-10k modular library that downloads and executes fast, with a familiar and versatile API, so you can concentrate on getting stuff done.
Closure Library and Zepto belong to "Javascript UI Libraries" category of the tech stack.
Closure Library and Zepto are both open source tools. Zepto with 14.5K GitHub stars and 4.06K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Closure Library with 3.23K GitHub stars and 842 GitHub forks.
Pros of Closure Library
Pros of Zepto
- Lightweight5