Elm vs NativeBase

Overview

Elm

Stacks759

Followers745

Votes319

NativeBase

Stacks85

Followers273

Votes3

GitHub Stars20.4K

Forks2.4K

Elm vs NativeBase: What are the differences?

Elm: A type inferred, functional reactive language that compiles to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code; NativeBase: Experience the awesomeness of React Native without the pain. NativeBase is a free and open source framework that enables developers to build high-quality mobile apps using React Native iOS and Android apps with a fusion of ES6. NativeBase builds a layer on top of React Native that provides you with basic set of components for mobile application development. This helps you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms.

Elm and NativeBase are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools respectively.

Elm and NativeBase are both open source tools. It seems that NativeBase with 12.2K GitHub stars and 1.45K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Elm with 5.3K GitHub stars and 424 GitHub forks.

NoRedInk, Brilliant, and RolePoint are some of the popular companies that use Elm, whereas NativeBase is used by Evand, GeekyAnts, and Katomi. Elm has a broader approval, being mentioned in 27 company stacks & 35 developers stacks; compared to NativeBase, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Elm	NativeBase
Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code.	NativeBase is a free and open source framework that enables developers to build high-quality mobile apps using React Native iOS and Android apps with a fusion of ES6. NativeBase builds a layer on top of React Native that provides you with basic set of components for mobile application development. This helps you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms.
No Runtime Exceptions; Fearless refactoring; Understand anyone's code; Fast and friendly feedback; Enforced Semantic Versioning; Small Assets	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 20.4K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 2.4K
Stacks 759	Stacks 85
Followers 745	Followers 273
Votes 319	Votes 3
Pros & Cons
Pros 46 Code stays clean 45 Great type system 41 No Runtime Exceptions 34 Fun 29 Easy to understand Cons 3 JS interop can not be async 3 No typeclasses -> repitition (i.e. map has 130versions) 2 JS interoperability a bit more involved 1 Backwards compability breaks between releases 1 Main developer enforces "the correct" style hard	Pros 3 Easy setup and use
Integrations
No integrations available	React Native

What are some alternatives to Elm, NativeBase?

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

Meteor

A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets.

Flutter

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

NativeScript

NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Julia

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.

Framework7

It is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS native look and feel. All you need to make it work is a simple HTML layout and attached framework's CSS and JS files.