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ES6 vs Semantic UI: What are the differences?
Developers describe ES6 as "The next version of JavaScript". Goals for ECMAScript 2015 include providing better support for large applications, library creation, and for use of ECMAScript as a compilation target for other languages. Some of its major enhancements include modules, class declarations, lexical block scoping, iterators and generators, promises for asynchronous programming, destructuring patterns, and proper tail calls. On the other hand, Semantic UI is detailed as "A UI Component library implemented using a set of specifications designed around natural language". Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.
ES6 and Semantic UI are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Front-End Frameworks" tools respectively.
"ES6 code is shorter than traditional JS" is the primary reason why developers consider ES6 over the competitors, whereas "Easy to use and looks elegant" was stated as the key factor in picking Semantic UI.
Semantic UI is an open source tool with 45.7K GitHub stars and 4.83K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Semantic UI's open source repository on GitHub.
ebay, Intuit, and Asana are some of the popular companies that use ES6, whereas Semantic UI is used by Snapchat, Create.It, and Reviewable. ES6 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1440 company stacks & 1659 developers stacks; compared to Semantic UI, which is listed in 77 company stacks and 50 developer stacks.
This post is a bit of an obvious one, as we have a web application, we obviously need to have HTML
and CSS
in our stack. Though specifically though, we can talk a bit about backward compatibility and the specific approaches we want to enforce in our codebase.
HTML
: Not much explanation here, you have to interact with HTML for a web app. We will stick to the latest standard: HTML 5
.
CSS
: Again if we want to style any of our components within he web, we have to use to style it. Though we will be taking advantage of JSS
in our code base and try to minimize the # of CSS stylesheets and include all our styling within the components themselves. This leaves the codebase much cleaner and makes it easier to find styles!
Babel
: We understand that not every browser is able to support the cool new features of the latest node/JS features (such as redue, filter, etc) seen in ES6
. We will make sure to have the correct Babel
configuration o make our application backward compatible.
Material UI (MUI)
: We need to make our user interface as intuitive and pretty as possible within his MVP, and the UI framework used by Google will provide us with exactly that. MUI provides pretty much all the UI components you would need and allows heavy customization as well. Its vast # of demos will allow us to add components quickly and not get too hung up on making UI components.
We will be using the latest version of create-react-app
which bundles most of the above along many necessary frameworks (e.g. Jest for testing) to get started quickly.
For our front-end, React is chosen because it is easy to develop with due to its reusable components and state functions, in addition to a lot of community support. Because React is popular, it would be easy to hire for it here at our company MusiCore. Our team also has experience with React already. React can be written with ES6 and ES6 has a lot of popularity and versatility when it comes to creating classes and efficient functions. Node.js will be used as a runtime environment to compile the code. Node.js also has many different types of open-source packages that can help automate some of the tasks we want to do for the application. CSS 3 will be used to style components and is the standard for that.
Optimize-js
I will not describe this tool a lot here, because it's already good done by author on github
I just want to mention that this tool wrap up all immediately-invoked functions or likely-to-be-invoked functions in parentheses what is do a great optimization a JavaScript
file for faster initial execution and parsing (based on my experience).
The performance of application where I've introduced optimize-js
improved on 20% in a common (tested in Chrome
and IE11
).
- Clarification on Readme to the optimize-js
- Some of Nolan thoughts on the virtues of compile-time optimizations can be found in "Parens and Performance" – counterpost
Is it maintaining now? - Unfortunately, no (but feel free to send PR)
Pros of ES6
- ES6 code is shorter than traditional JS109
- Module System Standardized52
- Extremly compact2
- Destructuring Assignment2
Pros of Semantic UI
- Easy to use and looks elegant157
- Variety of components92
- Themes64
- Has out-of-the-box widgets i would actually use61
- Semantic, duh57
- Its the future44
- Open source42
- Very active development37
- Far less complicated structure31
- Gulp28
- Already has more features than bootstrap9
- Just compare it to Bootstrap and you'll be hooked8
- Clean and consistent markup model7
- UI components7
- Responsiveness6
- Because it is semantic :-D4
- Elegant. clean. readable. maintainable4
- Good-Looking4
- Is big and look really great, nothing like this2
- Consistent2
- Great docs2
- Modular and scalable2
- Easy to use1
- Blends with reactjs1
- Jquery1
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Cons of ES6
- Create Node.js1
- Suffers from baggage1
Cons of Semantic UI
- Outdated build tool (gulp 3))5
- Poor accessibility support3
- HTML is not semantic (see list component)3
- Javascript is tied to jquery2