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ExpressJS vs Polymer: What are the differences?
What is ExpressJS? Sinatra inspired web development framework for node.js -- insanely fast, flexible, and simple. Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
What is Polymer? A new library built on top of Web Components, designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers. Polymer is a new type of library for the web, designed to leverage the existing browser infrastructure to provide the encapsulation and extendability currently only available in JS libraries. Polymer is based on a set of future technologies, including Shadow DOM, Custom Elements and Model Driven Views. Currently these technologies are implemented as polyfills or shims, but as browsers adopt these features natively, the platform code that drives Polymer evacipates, leaving only the value-adds.
ExpressJS and Polymer are primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" and "Front-End Frameworks" tools respectively.
"Simple" is the primary reason why developers consider ExpressJS over the competitors, whereas "Web components" was stated as the key factor in picking Polymer.
ExpressJS and Polymer are both open source tools. It seems that ExpressJS with 44.6K GitHub stars and 7.48K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Polymer with 21.1K GitHub stars and 2K GitHub forks.
Twitter, Intuit, and OpenGov are some of the popular companies that use ExpressJS, whereas Polymer is used by Telemetry, AX Semantics, and USERcycle. ExpressJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 854 company stacks & 788 developers stacks; compared to Polymer, which is listed in 42 company stacks and 32 developer stacks.
Pros of ExpressJS
- Simple381
- Node.js336
- Javascript244
- High performance193
- Robust routing152
- Middlewares73
- Open source72
- Great community59
- Hybrid web applications37
- Well documented16
- Sinatra inspired9
- Rapid development9
- Isomorphic js.. superfast and easy7
- Socket connection7
- Light weight5
- Npm4
- Resource available for learning4
- Callbacks3
- Event loop3
- Data stream2
- Easy to use1
Pros of Polymer
- Web components52
- Material design30
- HTML14
- Components13
- Open source5
- It uses the platform4
- Designer friendly. HTMLX concepts3
- Like the interesting naming convention for elements1
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Cons of ExpressJS
- Not python27
- Overrated17
- No multithreading14
- Javascript9
- Not fast5
- Easily Insecure for Novices3
Cons of Polymer
- Last version is like 2 years ago? that's totally rad1
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