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  5. Essential React vs Famo.us vs jQuery

Essential React vs Famo.us vs jQuery

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Overview

jQuery
jQuery
Stacks195.4K
Followers70.6K
Votes6.6K
GitHub Stars59.6K
Forks20.5K
Famo.us
Famo.us
Stacks19
Followers35
Votes94
GitHub Stars6.2K
Forks681
Essential React
Essential React
Stacks2
Followers16
Votes0
GitHub Stars2.0K
Forks131

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Detailed Comparison

jQuery
jQuery
Famo.us
Famo.us
Essential React
Essential React

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

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.

A minimal skeleton for building testable React apps using ES6.

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Minimal tooling;ES6 with support for IE 8; Testability;Composable JSX over templates;Logic-driven inline styles over stylesheets
Statistics
GitHub Stars
59.6K
GitHub Stars
6.2K
GitHub Stars
2.0K
GitHub Forks
20.5K
GitHub Forks
681
GitHub Forks
131
Stacks
195.4K
Stacks
19
Stacks
2
Followers
70.6K
Followers
35
Followers
16
Votes
6.6K
Votes
94
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 1264
    Cross-browser
  • 957
    Dom manipulation
  • 810
    Power
  • 660
    Open source
  • 610
    Plugins
Cons
  • 6
    Large size
  • 5
    Sometimes inconsistent API
  • 5
    Encourages DOM as primary data source
  • 2
    Live events is overly complex feature
Pros
  • 14
    Speedy as native apps
  • 11
    Future
  • 9
    WebGL
  • 9
    Javascript
  • 6
    Open source
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AngularJS
AngularJS
React
React

What are some alternatives to jQuery, Famo.us, Essential React?

AngularJS

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

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.

Vue.js

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

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.

Svelte

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.

Flux

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.

Riot

Riot

Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.

Marko

Marko

Marko is a really fast and lightweight HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to readable Node.js-compatible JavaScript modules, and it works on the server and in the browser. It supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.

Kendo UI

Kendo UI

Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.

Preact

Preact

Preact is an attempt to recreate the core value proposition of React (or similar libraries like Mithril) using as little code as possible, with first-class support for ES2015. Currently the library is around 3kb (minified & gzipped).

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