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Hogan.js vs RactiveJS: What are the differences?
Developers describe Hogan.js as "A compiler for the Mustache templating language". Hogan.js is a 3.4k JS templating engine developed at Twitter. Use it as a part of your asset packager to compile templates ahead of time or include it in your browser to handle dynamic templates. On the other hand, RactiveJS is detailed as "Next-generation DOM manipulation". Ractive was originally created at theguardian.com to produce news applications. Ractive takes your Mustache templates and transforms them into a lightweight representation of the DOM – then when your data changes, it intelligently updates the real DOM.
Hogan.js and RactiveJS can be primarily classified as "Templating Languages & Extensions" tools.
"Lightweight" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Hogan.js, while over 6 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing RactiveJS.
Hogan.js and RactiveJS are both open source tools. It seems that RactiveJS with 5.67K GitHub stars and 440 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Hogan.js with 5K GitHub stars and 437 GitHub forks.
Pros of Hogan.js
- Lightweight3
Pros of RactiveJS
- Lightweight8
- Virtual Dom5
- Easy one page app templating of data4
- Data-binding2
- Components2
