Home
Application and Data
Languages & Frameworks
Javascript MVC Frameworks

Durandal vs Mithril

Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

Durandal
31
36
+ 1
20
Mithril
88
79
+ 1
86
Add tool

Durandal vs Mithril: What are the differences?

What is Durandal? Single Page Apps Done Right. 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.

What is 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.

Durandal and Mithril belong to "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Durandal are:

  • Clean MV* Architecture
  • JS & HTML Modularity
  • Simple App Lifecycle

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

  • Only 12kb gzipped, no dependencies
  • Small API, small learning curve
  • Safe-by-default templates

"Easy to learn" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Durandal, while over 15 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing Mithril.

Durandal and Mithril are both open source tools. Mithril with 11.3K GitHub stars and 863 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Durandal with 1.78K GitHub stars and 391 GitHub forks.

Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
Learn More
Pros of Durandal
Pros of Mithril
  • 3
    UI components
  • 3
    Easy to learn
  • 2
    Javascript
  • 2
    Free
  • 2
    Works IE8 >
  • 2
    Customizable
  • 2
    Quick to develop
  • 2
    Easy to start
  • 2
    Open source
  • 16
    Lightweight
  • 12
    Faster than React
  • 10
    Pure JavaScript
  • 10
    Virtual Dom
  • 8
    Robust
  • 7
    Unopinionated
  • 7
    Works with ES6
  • 6
    Very active development
  • 5
    Intelligent auto-redrawing system
  • 3
    Flux compatible
  • 2
    Small Learning Curve

Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

Cons of Durandal
Cons of Mithril
    Be the first to leave a con
    • 1
      Virtual Dom

    Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

    - No public GitHub repository available -

    What is Durandal?

    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.

    What is Mithril?

    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.

    Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

    Jobs that mention Durandal and Mithril as a desired skillset
    Engineering Manager I, Ads Serving Platform
    Pinterest
    San Francisco, CA, US; , US
    View Job Details
    guidanceSpeedDream+6
    What companies use Durandal?
    What companies use Mithril?
    Manage your open source components, licenses, and vulnerabilities
    Learn More

    Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

    What tools integrate with Durandal?
    What tools integrate with Mithril?
    What are some alternatives to Durandal and Mithril?
    Aurelia
    Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.
    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.
    AngularJS
    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.
    Knockout
    It is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), it can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.
    JavaScript
    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
    See all alternatives

    Related Comparisons

    AngularJS vs DurandalAngularJS vs MithrilAngularJS vs Aurelia vs DurandalAngularJS vs Durandal vs Ember.jsAngularJS vs Aurelia vs Mithril

    Trending Comparisons

    Django vs Laravel vs Node.jsBootstrap vs Foundation vs Material-UINode.js vs Spring BootFlyway vs LiquibaseAWS CodeCommit vs Bitbucket vs GitHub

    Top Comparisons

    Postman vs Swagger UIHipChat vs Mattermost vs SlackBitbucket vs GitHub vs GitLabBootstrap vs Materialize