Durandal vs Vue.js

Overview

Durandal

Stacks31

Followers36

Votes20

GitHub Stars1.7K

Forks371

Vue.js

Stacks55.5K

Followers44.7K

Votes1.6K

GitHub Stars209.7K

Forks33.8K

Durandal vs Vue.js: 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 Vue.js? A progressive framework for building user interfaces. It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

Durandal and Vue.js 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, Vue.js provides the following key features:

Reactivity
Components
Modularity

"Easy to learn" is the primary reason why developers consider Durandal over the competitors, whereas "Simple and easy to start with" was stated as the key factor in picking Vue.js.

Durandal and Vue.js are both open source tools. Vue.js with 147K GitHub stars and 21.6K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Durandal with 1.78K GitHub stars and 392 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Vue.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2359 company stacks & 6212 developers stacks; compared to Durandal, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.

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Advice on Durandal, Vue.js

Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs adviceon

Vue.js

React

I find using Vue.js to be easier (more concise / less boilerplate) and more intuitive than writing React. However, there are a lot more readily available React components that I can just plug into my projects. I'm debating whether to use Vue.js or React for an upcoming project that I'm going to use to help teach a friend how to build an interactive frontend. Which would you recommend I use?

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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}|tool:7304| consisting of @{Vue CLI}|tool:9559|, @{Vue Router}|tool:6932|, @{vuex}|tool:6705|, @{Webpack}|tool:1682| and @{Sass}|tool:1171| (Bundler for @{HTML5}|tool:2538|, @{CSS 3}|tool:6727|), @{Babel}|tool:2739| (Transpiler for @{JavaScript}|tool:1209|),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed @{Vue.js}|tool:3837| components
@{Vuetify}|tool:6163| as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
@{TypeScript}|tool:1612| as programming language
@{Apollo}|tool:5508| / @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (incl. @{GraphiQL}|tool:7879|) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
@{ESLint}|tool:3337|, @{TSLint}|tool:5561| and @{Prettier}|tool:7035| for coding style and code analyzes
@{Jest}|tool:830| as testing framework
@{Google Fonts}|tool:2652| and @{Font Awesome}|tool:3244| for typography and icon toolkit
@{NativeScript-Vue}|tool:9623| 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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Kamaleshwar

Software Engineer at Dibiz Pte. Ltd.

Jul 8, 2020

Decided

It was easier to find people who've worked on React than Vue. Angular did not have this problem, but seemed way too bloated compared to React. Angular also brings in restrictions working within their MVC framework. React on the other hand only handles the view/rendering part and rest of the control is left to the developers. React has a very active community, support and has lots of ready-to-use plugins/libraries available.

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Detailed Comparison

Durandal	Vue.js
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.	It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
JS & HTML modularity; Simple app lifecycle; Eventing, modals, message boxes, etc; Navigation & screen state management;Consistent async programming w/ promises; App bundling and optimization; Use any backend technology; Built on top of jQuery, Knockout & requireJS; Integrates with popular CSS libraries such as Bootstrap and Foundation; Make your own templatable and data-bindable widgets; Fully testable	Reactivity; Components; Modularity; Animations; Routing; Stability; Extendable Data bindings; Plain JS object models; Build UI by composing components; Mix & matching small libraries
Statistics
GitHub Stars 1.7K	GitHub Stars 209.7K
GitHub Forks 371	GitHub Forks 33.8K
Stacks 31	Stacks 55.5K
Followers 36	Followers 44.7K
Votes 20	Votes 1.6K
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 UI components 3 Easy to learn 2 Open source 2 Javascript 2 Free	Pros 294 Simple and easy to start with 230 Good documentation 196 Components 131 Simple the best 100 Simplified AngularJS Cons 9 Less Common Place 5 YXMLvsHTML Markup 3 Don't support fragments 3 Only support programatically multiple root nodes
Integrations
Bootstrap Foundation	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Durandal, Vue.js?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

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.

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.

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.