Inferno vs jQuery vs React

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Inferno

24
61
+ 1
20
jQuery

183.5K
61.6K
+ 1
6.6K
React

150.1K
124.2K
+ 1
4K
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Pros of Inferno
Pros of jQuery
Pros of React
  • 4
    React-like api
  • 4
    Faster than React
  • 3
    Compatibility package for existing React apps
  • 3
    Smaller bundles
  • 3
    Faster than Angular
  • 3
    Faster than Vue
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    Cross-browser
  • 957
    Dom manipulation
  • 809
    Power
  • 660
    Open source
  • 610
    Plugins
  • 458
    Easy
  • 395
    Popular
  • 350
    Feature-rich
  • 281
    Html5
  • 227
    Light weight
  • 92
    Simple
  • 84
    Great community
  • 79
    CSS3 Compliant
  • 69
    Mobile friendly
  • 67
    Fast
  • 43
    Intuitive
  • 42
    Swiss Army knife for webdev
  • 35
    Huge Community
  • 11
    Easy to learn
  • 4
    Clean code
  • 3
    Because of Ajax request :)
  • 2
    Just awesome
  • 2
    Used everywhere
  • 2
    Powerful
  • 2
    Nice
  • 1
    Widely Used
  • 1
    Improves productivity
  • 1
    Open Source, Simple, Easy Setup
  • 1
    It Just Works
  • 1
    Industry acceptance
  • 1
    Allows great manipulation of HTML and CSS
  • 1
    Javascript
  • 1
    Easy Setup
  • 807
    Components
  • 665
    Virtual dom
  • 575
    Performance
  • 501
    Simplicity
  • 442
    Composable
  • 184
    Data flow
  • 166
    Declarative
  • 127
    Isn't an mvc framework
  • 118
    Reactive updates
  • 113
    Explicit app state
  • 46
    JSX
  • 27
    Learn once, write everywhere
  • 22
    Easy to Use
  • 21
    Uni-directional data flow
  • 17
    Works great with Flux Architecture
  • 11
    Great perfomance
  • 9
    Javascript
  • 9
    Built by Facebook
  • 7
    TypeScript support
  • 6
    Speed
  • 5
    Easy to start
  • 5
    Excellent Documentation
  • 5
    Props
  • 5
    Functional
  • 5
    Easy as Lego
  • 5
    Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others
  • 5
    Cross-platform
  • 5
    Server Side Rendering
  • 5
    Feels like the 90s
  • 5
    Hooks
  • 5
    Awesome
  • 5
    Scalable
  • 4
    Strong Community
  • 4
    Super easy
  • 4
    Start simple
  • 4
    Sdfsdfsdf
  • 4
    Server side views
  • 4
    Fancy third party tools
  • 4
    Scales super well
  • 3
    Just the View of MVC
  • 3
    Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive
  • 3
    Fast evolving
  • 3
    SSR
  • 3
    Great migration pathway for older systems
  • 3
    Rich ecosystem
  • 3
    Simple
  • 3
    Has functional components
  • 3
    Allows creating single page applications
  • 3
    Has arrow functions
  • 3
    Very gentle learning curve
  • 3
    Beautiful and Neat Component Management
  • 2
    Permissively-licensed
  • 2
    Sharable
  • 2
    Split your UI into components with one true state
  • 2
    Every decision architecture wise makes sense
  • 2
    Fragments
  • 1
    M
  • 1
    Recharts
  • 1
    Image upload
  • 1
    HTML-like

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Cons of Inferno
Cons of jQuery
Cons of React
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    • 6
      Large size
    • 5
      Sometimes inconsistent API
    • 5
      Encourages DOM as primary data source
    • 2
      Live events is overly complex feature
    • 38
      Requires discipline to keep architecture organized
    • 27
      No predefined way to structure your app
    • 26
      Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages
    • 10
      JSX
    • 8
      Not enterprise friendly
    • 6
      One-way binding only
    • 3
      State consistency with backend neglected
    • 3
      Bad Documentation
    • 2
      Paradigms change too fast
    • 2
      Error boundary is needed

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    What is Inferno?

    Inferno is an isomorphic library for building high-performance user interfaces, which is crucial when targeting mobile devices. Unlike typical virtual DOM libraries like React, Mithril, Virtual-dom, Snabbdom and Om, Inferno uses techniques to separate static and dynamic content. This allows Inferno to only "diff" renders that have dynamic values.

    What is jQuery?

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

    What is 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.

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