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Framework7 vs RIBs: What are the differences?
Developers describe Framework7 as "Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS Apps". Framework7 - 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! Framework7 doesn't force you to write some custom tags that will be converted by JavaScript to something else. On the other hand, RIBs is detailed as "Build cross-platform apps that have similar architecture, enabling iOS and Android teams to cross-review business logic code (by Uber)". RIBs is the cross-platform architecture framework behind many mobile apps at Uber. The name RIBs is short for Router, Interactor and Builder, which are core components of this architecture. This framework is designed for mobile apps with a large number of engineers and nested states.
Framework7 and RIBs can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.
Framework7 and RIBs are both open source tools. Framework7 with 14.5K GitHub stars and 3.04K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than RIBs with 4.76K GitHub stars and 477 GitHub forks.
Pros of Framework7
- Free and open source21
- Well designed20
- Material design17
- Lots of ready-to-use ui elements, easy to customize15
- Best performance12
- Amazing documentation11
- Nice look and best performance9
- Rtl support9
- Performance and great features.9
- Easy To Learn7
- Free7
- Basic Web App Development Technique6
- Nice sample provided6
- It's feels light to use5
- Quick inital time5
- Easy to use , transit from vanilla JS5
- Doesn't require learning a JS framework5
- Easy to integrate2
Pros of RIBs
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Cons of Framework7
- Not suitable for high performance in PWA. desktop apps1